This artist’s animation illustrates vibrating buckyballs — spherical molecules of carbon discovered in space for the first time by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Archive for July 21, 2010
Mini Soccer Balls in Space
This animation illustrates that buckyballs — discovered in space by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope — closely resemble old fashioned, black-and-white soccer balls, only on much smaller scales.
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