{"id":473151,"date":"2026-05-29T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:55:09","slug":"scientists-stunned-by-bizarre-football-shaped-molecules-lighting-up-a-mysterious-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473151\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned by bizarre football-shaped molecules lighting up a mysterious nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tScientists stunned by bizarre football-shaped molecules lighting up a mysterious nebula &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            6 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/buckminsterfullerenes_ChatGPT.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"buckminsterfuller\u00e8nes_ChatGPT\" loading=\"eager\" 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 bizarre football-shaped molecules lighting up a mysterious nebula &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 29, 2026 6 min&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82,163910],"class_list":["post-473151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-space-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}