From the outside, it looks like a refrigerator. But inside, Maybell Quantum Industries’ “Big Fridge” is nothing like any kitchen refrigerator. Maybell built the dilution refrigerator on the campus of Colorado School of Mines, and showed it off this week before it ships out to a customer in Canada.

Maybell founder and CEO Corban Tillemann-Dick explained how cold it will get inside the “Big Fridge.”

“If you go to the middle of outer space as far away from anything else as you can get, you’re going to be at about negative 269 Celsius, and this is about 300 times colder than that,” Tillemann-Dick said.

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