Gluonic microscope

Gluonic microscopes were revolutionary pieces of technology created and acquired by multiple species by the early 25th century (excluding the Centurians). It was highly experimental and inefficient in the first few years of existence, although by 2422 the technological had entered the Beta stage.

Operation
Gluonic microscopes worked by utilizing a focused and tight beam of gluons towards a specific object. Using an amplified neutron microscope, scientist/personnel utilized these microscopes were able to see illuminated subatomic particles. This caused by hyper-energized gluons due to them being irradiated by additional gluons.

In the first place, the gluons were not synthesized but collected from the unintelligible amounts of stray gluons from natural gluon hyper-energizing or decayed atoms.