Buckyballs detected in nebula
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Channel: Rice University · 2010 · Education
It took a while, but researchers in Canada and California have found something akin to what Harry Kroto was looking for at Rice all those years ago: Buckyballs in space! Don't get the wrong idea -- this has nothing to do with Mel Brooks. Analysis of planetary nebula Tc1, the remains of a star about 6,000 light years away, showed a distinct spectral signature for carbon-60 buckminsterfullerenes, the carbon molecule discovered by the Nobel Prize-winning team of Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, University Professor Emeritus and the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, in Smalley's Rice lab 25 years ago.
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