The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is not long from an operational state (should be sometime this fall), and while we wait for the insane amount of data, approximately 27 TB (TeraByte that is) of raw data a day, that has to be analyzed for answers to some of the biggest questions in modern science, why not use the time for looking at some pictures of the thing? Well ok, you say?

HERE is what might be the coolest set of pictures I have seen in a while, even including all the cool galleries from our previous posts on scientific pictures. This site shows the unbelievable planning, engineering and construction work going on at CERN, as well as the datacenters and general atmosphere of the place. They even have small explanatory captions so you know what you’re looking at.

So if you like beatiful pictures and you like science, believe me you want to go check this out.