{"id":502,"date":"2025-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:44:10","slug":"a-scientist-was-urged-not-to-take-a-risky-cosmic-image-he-didnt-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/a-scientist-was-urged-not-to-take-a-risky-cosmic-image-he-didnt-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"A scientist was urged not to take a risky cosmic image. He didn&#039;t listen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-scientist-was-urged-not-to-take-a-risky-cosmic-image-he-di_haq9.640.png\">&#8220;I&#x27;m willing to fall on my sword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/55161\/hubble-snaps-photo-of-an-eerie-part-of-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>&#8216;s research program, was paid two visits by the renowned astronomer John Bahcall, considered one of Hubble&#8217;s founding fathers. <\/p>\n<p>Bahcall had, in hindsight, a strange request. <\/p>\n<p>He urged \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#x27;m willing to fall on my sword.&#8221; In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble Space Telescope&#8216;s research program, was paid two visits by the renowned astronomer John Bahcall, considered one of Hubble&#8217;s founding fathers. Bahcall had, in hindsight, a strange request. He urged \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}