Sun-like temperatures… on Earth?

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory generated temperatures of greater than 2 billion degrees Kelvin, hotter than the interior of the sun. To do it, they fired up their Z Machine accelerator, seen here in operation, to produce incredibly hot plasmas.

Am I the only one that thinks that pic is cool? (Although that may seem paradoxial, since the temperatures being generated in that pic are above 2 billion Kelvin…)

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