Scientists may have just tracked down the source of some mysterious infrared glows detected emanating from stars and clouds of interstellar dust and gas.
It's not clear exactly how the buckyballs get there, although recent research suggests that they are. Since they are there, though, scientists have been fascinated to probe its properties, and what can happen to it in the big wide Universe.
In particular, they can become highly ionized – the process of adding or removing electrons. Up to 26 electrons can beemitted by the buckyballs They conducted a series of quantum chemical calculations to determine the wavelengths in which these molecules might be seen. Even more pertinently, the emission of buckyballs with 1 to 6 electrons removed can be very easily distinguished from the infrared emission of another type of carbon molecule, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are associated with the 6.2-micrometer band.
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