In 2010, the Spitzer Space Telescope detected evidence of a complex form of carbon that had never been seen in extraterrestrial environments. Jan Cami recounts the discovery of buckminsterfullerene in space.
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Woods, P. The discovery of cosmic fullerenes. Nat Astron 4, 299–305 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1076-5
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