A scientist was urged not to take a risky cosmic image. He didnt listen.

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The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery in December 1999.

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble Space Telescope's research program, was paid two visits by the renowned astronomer John Bahcall, considered one of Hubble's founding fathers.

Bahcall had, in hindsight, a strange request.

He urged Williams not to train the powerful NASA telescope into an uncharted region of

Source: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-deep-field-how-hubble-made-history

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