It is official: buckminsterfullerenes or “buckyballs” (spherical molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms) exist in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The new, unambiguous, confirmation, from researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland not only confirms a 20-year old theory prediction but also indicates that C60 might be ubiquitous in space…..
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/61888
