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            Carbon rain - Stars reveal carbon 'spaceballs'

22 Jul 10 - Scientists have detected carbon molecules known as buckyballs in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.
 

These molecules are the "third type of carbon" - with the first two types being graphite and diamond.

Buckyballs consist of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a sphere. The atoms are linked together in alternating patterns of hexagons and pentagons that, on the molecular scale, look exactly like a football.

The research group, led by Jan Cami from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, spotted the buckyballs' infrared "signature" in a star in the southern hemisphere constellation of Ara.

"This is clear evidence of an entirely new class of molecule existing there," said Professor Cami.

The football-shaped carbon molecules were discovered on earth only 25 years ago when they were accidently made in a laboratory.

"Now it turns out that those conditions that were deliberately created in a laboratory actually occur in space too - we just had to look in the right place," said Professor Cami.

 

“This provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has... existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy,” says Harry Kroto at Florida State University, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs.

      Do you suppose that these buckyballs were created in the
      murky waters of some vast stagnant swamp in the constellation
      Ara and then were somehow levitated into that cloud of cosmic
      dust?

      Or could they have been created in the sky during gigantic
      explosions, just as I suggest in "Magnetic Reversals and
      Evolutionary Leaps"?

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