{"id":3925595,"date":"2026-04-22T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-reveal-spectacular-birthplace-of-cosmic-buckyballs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:11:15","slug":"astronomers-reveal-spectacular-birthplace-of-cosmic-buckyballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-reveal-spectacular-birthplace-of-cosmic-buckyballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers reveal spectacular birthplace of cosmic buckyballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered &#8220;buckyballs&#8221; in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere), they&#8217;re back with stunning images and rich data generated using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)\u2014the most powerful space telescope ever built. The team led by Jan Cami, a physics and astronomy professor, first detected buckyballs using NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2010. The fantastic find came from the planetary nebula Tc 1, formed from a dying star more than 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-astronomers-reveal-spectacular-birthplace-cosmic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered &#8220;buckyballs&#8221; in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere), they&#8217;re back with stunning images and rich data generated using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)\u2014the most powerful space telescope ever built. The team led by Jan Cami, a physics and astronomy professor, first detected buckyballs using [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}