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Oops! 8 Discoveries Astronomers Didn't Mean to Make

Lots of important advances in astronomy happen accidentally, when scientists are searching for something else.

Credit: NASA/CXC/Amherst College/D.Haggard et al

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Right: Optical: NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al. X-Ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.

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Right: NASA and Erich Karkoschka, University of Arizona

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Tokyo Institute of Technology/J.Kataoka et al, Radio: NRAO/VLA

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