Nebulae and Galaxies

Six objects, none of them visible to the naked eye. The Cat's Paw Nebula and Pismis 24 are stellar nurseries in Scorpius, recorded by the James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light the human eye cannot register at all. The Helix Nebula, 650 light years away in Aquarius, is a dying star's last outward breath, built from nine Hubble exposures stitched into one seamless frame. The Cigar Galaxy and the Sombrero Galaxy sit millions of light years further out again.

Every print in this collection began as astronomical data, not a photograph in the ordinary sense, converted into colour so a human eye can read what an instrument recorded. Hung together, they are six different distances from home.