JWST Maps Buckyballs Concentrated in a Thin Spherical Shell Around a Dying Star, 16 Years After Their First Detection in Space
A Western University team led by Jan Cami used JWST's MIRI instrument to image planetary nebula Tc 1, finding C60 buckyballs confined to a hollow shell around the white dwarf and revealing an unexplained question-mark structure at the center.
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