Looks like a flux capacitor out of Doc Brown's DeLorean.

Also, it would seem that maybe humanity has found a new metal alloy for deep space travel. It's been theorized that part of the reason why we haven't travelled farther than low Earth orbit since the 70's is because NASA destroyed all research materials on the Apollo program. This alloy looks like it would be able to provide EM radiation shielding and potentially other forms of radiation shielding much like the Van Allen Belt along with the Earth's own electromagnetism helps to shield us from the sun's damaging radiation.

Very interesting.