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The energy of the sun feeds life on Earth and is harvested by molecules of chlorophylls and carotenoids. In case of certain photosynthetic bacteria thousands of these molecules are fitted into spheres smaller than 1/10000 of a millimeter (see the October 2007 highlight on Lifes Solar Battery). Naturally, it is crowded in these spheres! Researchers now established the composition and arrangement of the light harvesting system, the chlorophylls and carotenoids being held by hundreds of ring-shaped proteins. Utilizing the sun lights energy optimally is a difficult balancing act in molecular engin