"China is finishing construction on its physics research facility, setting to go online next year, in rural Guangdong province, located 700 meters underground, preventing it from unwanted cosmic rays.
After 10 years of construction, the $300 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will detect the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us to understand why matters are the way they are.
At the core part of JUNO stands the 12-story-tall acrylic sphere with a diameter of 35.4 meters, big enough to capture the light-speed and electrically neutral neutrinos, the tiniest among the 12 elementary particles.
Once operating, JUNO will also be used to study astronomical objects, like the sun and supernovas.
The detector is one of three being built across the globe with the other two, based in the United States and Japan, still under construction.
The answer could improve our understanding of fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology."