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S.T.A.R. Labs is a fictional organization that is part of the DC Comics Universe. It first appeared in Superman #246 (1971). S.T.A.R. Labs stands for the Scientific Technological and Advanced Research Laboratories. S.T.A.R. has facilities all over the planet, supplying an array of philanthropic, commercial, and military technical support. There are local S.T.A.R. Labs in cities like New York, Metropolis (DC Comics), and Gotham City. The Metropolis chapter is a particularly busy one, due to it being Superman’s home, making it a focus of meta-human activity. The fields of scientific study in a comic book universe are diverse, and S.T.A.R. Labs is there to help the Man of Steel and the citizens of Metropolis figure out its twists and turns. S.T.A.R. Labs also has an outlook space station that orbits the globe for observation and outer space experimentation. The quest to explain the unexplainable is led by Dr. Karen Lou “Kitty” Faulkner, and her team of scientists including Prof. Bridgette Crosby, Dr. Sarah Charles, and Dr. Phineas Potter.