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.
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