Bucky balls found in space dust

摘要

Buckyballs have been a source of fascination ever since they were made in the lab in 1985. Now it seems they may be found throughout the cosmos.rnPrevious studies of impact craters on Earth hinted that these 60-atom balls of carbon might exist in space. And when Jan Cami of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and colleagues analysed infrared radiation from the dust around a white dwarf star about 6500 light years away from Earth, they found buckyballs' signature {Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1192035).