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Buckyballs abound in space

3 November 2010

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BUCKMINSTER FULLER would be so proud. Buckyballs, made of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a geodesic sphere – the shape made famous by the inventor – have been found beyond our galaxy, suggesting they abound in space.

Buckyballs were found in space earlier this year in dust shed by a dying star. Now a group led by Anibal García-Hernández at the Astrophysical Institute of the Canaries, Spain, will report in that there is a cloud of the stuff, about 15 times the mass…

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