The Hubble Deep Field in Infrared . ... Credit Copyright: R. I. Thompson ( U. Arizona ), NICMOS , HST , NASA Explanation: Galaxies this faint have never been seen before. In 1996 the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) created one of the most famous pictures of modern astronomy, the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). Now HST has returned to a piece of the HDF for a long exposure by its new NICMOS camera , sensitive to infrared light. ... Galaxies as dim as magnitude 30 are visible. ...