discoverynews: Cosmic Buckyball Particle ‘Factory’ Discovered For the first time, “buckyballs” have been discovered in the cosmos in a solid form. Until now, the only evidence in space for the bizarre little hollow balls of carbon atoms have been in interstellar gases, but with the help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered buckyballs accumulating and stacking atop one another to form solid particles. keep reading
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Cosmic Buckyball Particle ‘Factory’ Discovered

For the first time, “buckyballs” have been discovered in the cosmos in a solid form.

Until now, the only evidence in space for the bizarre little hollow balls of carbon atoms have been in interstellar gases, but with the help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered buckyballs accumulating and stacking atop one another to form solid particles.

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    Cosmic Buckyball Particle ‘Factory’ Discovered For the first time, “buckyballs” have been discovered in the cosmos in a...
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    Omg! Brings back memories from high school and my English physics teacher trying to teach us about this!
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    Interesting…:O
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    wow. so pretty like lace.
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