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except when we discovered buckyballs in

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space fullerenes or buckminsterfullerene

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sets are calling foo are in fact an

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entire class of molecules what balls are

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these microscopic particles made of

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carbon that are arranged in a very

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specific pattern of pentagons and

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hexagons which gives them the shape of a

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bucky balls are like soccer balls in the

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precise way that the carbon atoms make

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up a pattern of pentagons and hexagons

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in that sense chemical structure of

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these balls is exactly the same

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as a soccer ball we can detect

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buckyballs in space through their

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vibrational motions these buckyballs

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they oscillate or vibrate in very

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different ways and each way they vibrate

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corresponds to a very specific color of

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infrared light than they emit or absorb

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so it's the first detection of an entire

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new class of molecules that we know on

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earth but that we didn't know for sure

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whether or not they existed in space

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buckyballs are now the largest known

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molecules in space and we have

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discovered them using the Spitzer Space

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Telescope astronomers are excited about

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the discovery of big balls in space

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first of all because it is something

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that we have been looking for for about

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25 years now the main reason being that

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these bucky balls are amongst the most

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stable and most most durable molecules

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that we know on earth so they're ideal

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candidates to survive the harsh