Sixty carbon atoms arranged in a truncated icosahedron form a molecule of buckminsterfullerene. In other words, they make little itty bitty soccer balls, and the Spitzer space telescope has spotted these “buckyballs” floating around out in space. And not just one or two in gaseous form, but entire crates of them, stacked up together like oranges.

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