{"id":668,"date":"2019-07-10T05:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas\/?p=668"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:47:44","slug":"ionized-soccer-balls-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/2019\/07\/10\/ionized-soccer-balls-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Ionized soccer balls in space!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/full_width\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/c-60-in-space.jpg?itok=Q9oY6nVr\" alt=\"Artist's concept of buckyballs in space\" \/><figcaption>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/catalog\/PIA13551\">NASA\/JPL<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An international team including Paco Najarro has confirmed, for the first time, the presence of large molecules that resemble tiny soccer balls in the interstellar medium. High signal-to-noise HST-STIS spectra taken towards different lines of sight, all backlit by massive stars, have detected the weak predicted DIBs caused by the ionized C60 Buckmisnterfullerene.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check on NASA&#8217;s press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2019\/soccer-balls-in-space\">here<\/a>. The main journal paper is available <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2019ApJ...875L..28C\/abstract\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team including Paco Najarro has confirmed, for the first time, the presence of large molecules that resemble tiny soccer balls in the interstellar medium. High signal-to-noise HST-STIS spectra taken towards different lines of sight, all backlit by massive stars, have detected the weak predicted DIBs caused by the ionized C60 Buckmisnterfullerene. Check on NASA&#8217;s press release here. The main journal paper is available here.<\/p>\n<a class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/2019\/07\/10\/ionized-soccer-balls-in-space\/\">[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/masivas-torrejon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}