November 14, 2016
Cosmos
Curated content from the editorial staff at Cosmos Magazine.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
This tangle of metal, pipes and wires is the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), which weighs 1,200 tonnes and is as large as a house.
It is used to search for signatures of the quark-gluon plasma and measure the behaviour of other exotic matter.
