Power has its privileges, and Robert Williams knew exactly how he wanted to use his. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the Hubble Space Telescope, Williams was entitled to "director's discretionary time" on the orbiting scope. Although his own specialty is exploding stars, Williams had a hunch that science was more likely to get a big bang out of a very different target: the farthest edge of the universe. So for 10 days in December, Williams had Hubble's handlers point the telescope's camera at a single slice of the sky.
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