Transcript Exploding carbon star blowing molecules (red gas) into space Focus

Trapezium
cluster
Hot new stars
in Orion
Black clouds in space
Radiotelescope in Canada
Radio signal of H-CC-CC-CC-CN
HCCCCCN
HCCCCCCCN
HCCCCCCCCN
Oka,Avery,Bronson,McLeod(NRC);Alexander,Kirby,Walton(Sussex)
Exploding carbon star blowing molecules
(red gas) into space
lens
Focus Sunlight on a
piece of wood
Wood
Sun’s Rays
Focus a laser
on graphite
(pencil lead)
Graphite Target
Laser
focused on
graphite
carbon plasma
Plasma in lab
Exploding Star
Try to reproduce the stellar plasma in
the laboratory
We found
clusters of
60 atoms
Graphite Target
lens
Laser beam
We decided that the 60 carbon atoms
were stuck together to form a cage with
the same pattern as a soccer ball
Nanotechnology
The Earth is
100,000,000
times larger
than a
soccerball
107m
10-1m
10-9m
108
108
and a
soccerball is
100,000,000
x larger than
a Buckyball