buckyballs found in space

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Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Bob Curl and Rick Smalley for the discovery of buckyballs, says, “This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our Galaxy.”



Spitzer data revealed the signature of the buckyballs in their C60 and C70 forms.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Western Ontario.