{"id":637498,"date":"2019-11-13T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637498"},"modified":"2019-11-13T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:21:54","slug":"mysteries-behind-interstellar-buckyballs-finally-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637498","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called &#8220;buckyballs&#8221;\u2014complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure\u2014throughout interstellar space. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona has proposed a mechanism for their formation in a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-11-mysteries-interstellar-buckyballs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called &#8220;buckyballs&#8221;\u2014complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure\u2014throughout interstellar space. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}