The Hubble Space Telescope recently spied new evidence of wiggly buckyballs, which have intrigued astrophysicists since they were discovered in space by the Spitzer Space Telescope in the clouds of star stuff in a planetary nebula nearly a decade ago, these wiggly balls of Buckminsterfullerene (named after artist Richard Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic spheres) are the largest space molecule.

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