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Carbon ‘buckyballs’ found in space for the first time
Astronomers have serendipitously found soccer-ball shaped carbon molecules in the nebula around a distant, white-dwarf star. The molecules are the largest ones ever found in space, and are part of a third type of carbon–the other two being graphite and diamond.
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