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we discovered bucky balls in space

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fullerenes or buckminster fullerenes as

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they're called in full are in fact an

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bucket balls are these microscopic

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particles made of carbon that are

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arranged in a very specific pattern of

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pentagons and hexagons which gives them

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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 bucky balls is exactly the same as

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a soccer ball

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we can detect buggy balls in space

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through their vibrational motions

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these bucky balls they oscillate or

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vibrate in very different ways and each

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way they vibrate corresponds to a very

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specific color of infrared light that

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they emit or absorb so it's the first

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detection of an entire new class of

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molecules that we know on earth but that

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we didn't know for sure whether or not

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they existed in space

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bucky balls are now the largest known

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molecules in space

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um and we have discovered them using the

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spitzer space telescope as strummers are

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excited about the discovery of

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pickleballs in space first of all

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because it is something that we have

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been looking for for about 25 years now

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the main reason being that these

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buckyballs are amongst the most stable

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and most most durable molecules that we

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know on earth so they're ideal

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candidates to survive the harsh