Did the Largest Known Molecules in Space Seed Life on Earth & Elsewhere?

NASA Astronomers discovered an abundance of buckyballs -the largest known molecules in space, using the Spitzer Space Telescope to find the carbon spheres in the space between stars and around three dying stars. The Spitzer also detected buckyballs around a fourth dying star in a nearby galaxy in huge, unexpected quantities -- the equivalent in mass to about 15 of our moons.

A study of R Coronae Borealis stars by David L. Lambert, Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory, and colleagues showed that buckyballs are more common in space than previously thought.

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