Buckyballs in Space
spitzer_sig10-022 October 27th, 2010
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC/Caltech)
NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope has detected buckyballs - intriguing, miniature-soccer-ball-shaped molecules - in interstellar space for the first time. With these new results, the buckyball claims the record for the largest molecule ever discovered floating between the stars. This artists conception shows buckyballs floating in interstellar space, near a region of current star-formation.
Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope
Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3417-sig10-022-Buckyballs-in-Space
Curator: Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- sig10-022
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- E.3.1.10. E.3.7.2.2. E.5.3.2.1. E.5.4.9.
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- NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC/Caltech)
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- 2010-10-27
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- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3417-sig10-022-Buckyballs-in-Space
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- Good
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- Spitzer Space Telescope
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- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu
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- 1200 E. California Blvd.
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- Pasadena
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- CA
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- 91125
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- USA
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- Public Domain
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- Spitzer Science Center
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- spitzer
- Resource ID
- sig10-022.tif
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- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/images/0006/4121/sig10-022.tif
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- 2011-09-01
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- 1.1
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