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Buckyballs Found in Space
February 23, 2012 | NASA

“Astronomers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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