They are known as "buckyballs," ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere, and are found in space. These strange customers were first observed by Professor Jan Cami and a team from Western University in 2010 using the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST). And now, more than 15 years later, Cami and his colleagues have detected buckyballs again using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The rich data they retrieved from Webb's observations have pointed to the origin of these strange cosmic molecules. The observations were part of Cycle 3 of the JWST General Observer ( GO-4076 ) program, titled " Fullerenes in Tc 1: a quantitative study of the interaction of large molecules with their radiative environment ." The research was made possible with the support of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and a Western University Accelerator Award.…