6,354 confirmed worlds, and every one carries its receipt.
The complete NASA Exoplanet Archive, read into a grid space by its own AI and written onto the board as finished visuals — every mark addressable, every figure traceable to the archive row it came from.
This page is the exhibit. The space behind it is the product.
Every world we know, in one field.
Orbital period against planet size, one mark per confirmed planet, colored by how it was found. Tap a mark and it answers — name, size, year, and its discovery method. Tap a method chip to isolate that instrument's harvest — and notice radial velocity nearly vanishes: it measures a planet's mass, not its size, so few of its 1,200 finds can sit on a radius axis. Even the gaps here are honest. The clusters aren't style; they're selection effects made visible — each detection method can only see certain worlds.
Thirty-four years, three eras.
Discoveries per year. The 1995–2008 trickle is radial velocity from the ground; the 2014 and 2016 spikes are the Kepler space telescope's batch confirmations; the steady modern floor is TESS. The chart's shape is the history of an entire field of science.
The nearest dozen.
Every confirmed planet within reach of the question "could we ever look closer?" — sorted by distance, each with its discovery year and method.
How this was made.
The archive's confirmed-planets table — one row per world — pulled by a scheduled job, stamped with its retrieval date. Nothing hand-edited.
The rows land in a grid space as records — payload, source, retrieval date — each at its own address.
The space's AI reads the records and writes these visuals onto the board. A person decided what the exhibits argue; the machine drew them from the data.
Every figure on this page traces to an archive row. Where something is computed — the light-year column — the derivation is stated beside it.
Walk into the space.
The demo space is the real product reading this real dataset — writing turned off, everything else on. Pan the board, open the records, read the receipts, take the data with you.