Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988rspta.325..405k&link_type=abstract
(Royal Society, Discussion on the Solar System: Chemistry as a Key to its Origin, London, England, July 15, 16, 1987) Royal Soci
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
9
Interstellar Matter, Molecular Clouds, Radio Astronomy, Stellar Evolution, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Stars, Infrared Astronomy, Line Spectra, Milky Way Galaxy, Molecular Structure
Scientific paper
There has been a dramatic advance in our appreciation of the richness of the molecular component of the interstellar medium, mainly brought about by combining laboratory spectroscopic measurements with radioastronomy search programmes. Some intriguing and rather exotic molecules, consisting primarily of carbon atoms connected in long chains, have also been identified. Not only are these curious molecules to be found in the cold tenuous dark clouds but they are also to be found streaming out of carbon-rich stars into the surrounding interstellar medium. Laboratory experiments, stimulated by these observations, have led to the discovery of the hollow spheroidal carbon molecule, C60 buckminsterfullerene. This discovery has not only provided the key to the mechanism of formation of small carbon particles (such as soot) but also the first detailed understanding of their structure.
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