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You certainly don’t want to be inside the plasma chamber of the Max Planck Institute’s ASDEX Upgrade Fusion research device when it’s fired up and producing plasmas at temperatures exceeding 100 million °C. But you can take a virtual tour of the hottest spot in Germany by checking out a series of 360-degree panoramas of the chamber, its control room, and associated technical facilities at http://www.ipp.mpg.de/panorama.












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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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