Figure 01 — Protoplanetary disc
HD 142527
A spiral of dust caught mid-formation, its gap carved by a planet we have never seen. The disc is 1,400 AU across and still forming.
Our survey sits on a cold ridge in the southern Andes, photographing the same patch of sky every clear night for eleven years. The catalogue below is the first release — 1,482 objects, all of them faint enough to have been missed.
A spiral of dust caught mid-formation, its gap carved by a planet we have never seen. The disc is 1,400 AU across and still forming.
Hydrogen-alpha filaments climbing a molecular cloud wall, lit from behind by newborn massive stars still wrapped in their cocoons.
One hundred and fifty thousand stars bound in a sphere a hundred and fifty light years across — the remains of a galaxy eaten by the Milky Way.