JWST Reveals a Dying Star Surrounded by Mysterious Buckyballs in Stunning Detail

NASA’s little busy-bee, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), just delivered another treasure giving scientists an unprecedented infrared look at the interior of the Tc 1 planetary nebula, located some 10,000 light-years away where complex carbon molecules known as buckminsterfullerene (affectionately called “buckyballs”) are forged in the



