How gas like hydrogen become solid while being super-heated

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I was watching a show on the science channel about gas giants; there is something I do not understand. I am not a scientist, so this may be obvious to some. I learned that there a three states of an given physical object; solid, liquid, and gas depending on how cold or hot the object is. An easy example is ice, water and steam from coldest to hottest. So the theory is that Jupiter has a super-heated solid and very dense core that is made up of hydrogen. How does a gas like hydrogen become a solid while being super-heated? Is it that the pressure is so much that the gas is compressed into a solid? If so how much pressure does it take to compress hydrogen into a solid? How does the heat play into the equation?

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