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Soccer-Ball-Shaped Molecules Detected in Space

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Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2010

The Spitzer Space Telescope has located some elusive carbon molecules floating in space. Called "Buckyballs," due to their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, these three-dimensional, spherical structures are now the largest molecules known to exist in space, and until now, have escaped detection. Buckyballs hold unique properties in the physical and chemical processes of space .

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  • football..not soccer (sorry)

  • I wish I was rich so I could donate all my money to science.

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  • meanwhile a very tiny soccer player discovers an enormous alien telescope pointing directly at it

  • i wish they could have showed a photo of what they say.

  • shungit

    

  • I wonder what other atoms could be made into balls, C60... P60?

  • @Ratama telescopes don't just show visible light.

  • how can a telecope see this since it is basically a microscope backwards. sorry i don't buy it

  • @PdishmonkeyJJ true! I don't know what soccer is but I know what FOOTBALL is!! and is played with da FOOT! :)

  • @ispaniola

    So they're not a football. As they're not a ball, and used more with the hand than the foot.

    A ball is an object of spherical shape.

  • @supertrinko

    So..?

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