{"id":668806,"date":"2026-05-13T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:16:09","slug":"scientists-stunned-by-mysterious-football-shaped-molecules-glowing-in-a-distant-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668806\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned by mysterious \u201cfootball-shaped molecules\u201d glowing in a distant nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tScientists stunned by mysterious \u201cfootball-shaped molecules\u201d glowing in a distant nebula &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            6 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/scientists-stunned-by-mysterious-football-shaped-molecules-glowing-in-a-distant-nebula.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    An AI image of buckminsterfullerene molecules born in space around carbon stars. \u00a9 LS, AI ChatGPT<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned by mysterious \u201cfootball-shaped molecules\u201d glowing in a distant nebula &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 13, 2026 6 min&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[64,63,292,128],"class_list":["post-668806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}