# Hubble Deep Field: 3,000 Galaxies in a Grain of Sand
Published: February 2, 2026
Duration: 1:42
# Astronomy Tonight Podcast
This is your Astronomy Tonight podcast.
Welcome back, stargazers! Today we're celebrating February 2nd, and let me tell you, this date has some absolutely stellar moments in astronomical history!
On February 2nd, 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope captured one of the most iconic and humbling images in the history of astronomy: the **Hubble Deep Field**.
Picture this: Astronomers pointed humanity's most powerful eye in the sky at what appeared to be a completely empty patch of darkness—just a tiny sliver of the cosmos about the size of a grain of...
This is your Astronomy Tonight podcast.
Welcome back, stargazers! Today we're celebrating February 2nd, and let me tell you, this date has some absolutely stellar moments in astronomical history!
On February 2nd, 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope captured one of the most iconic and humbling images in the history of astronomy: the **Hubble Deep Field**.
Picture this: Astronomers pointed humanity's most powerful eye in the sky at what appeared to be a completely empty patch of darkness—just a tiny sliver of the cosmos about the size of a grain of...