The planetary settings come from the saved NASA catalog. All architecture, moons and local landscapes are imagined; no alien construction or civilization is claimed. Physical explanations and catalog measurements are distinguished from illustrative sky phenomena. The corrected Kepler-442 b plate constrains its star’s apparent size; other interpretive limitations remain visible in their individual notes.
Catalog quantities retain the 25 September 2026 NASA composite snapshot. Sources may differ between parameters; the linked companions preserve uncertainties, calculated values and upper limits. Proxima b has a minimum mass and calculated radius. Kepler-62 f has a mass upper limit. Kepler-186 f and Kepler-452 b retain controversial-entry flags.
The first plate is the preserved elevated view. Plates 02–10 use ground-level compositions. Scene 03 uses the corrected Kepler-442 b image with a nominal 0.78-degree stellar disk; it is not the superseded 55 Cancri e scene. The crystal-stair plate remains stylized in stellar scale and exposure. Auroras, the eclipse moon, comet, meteoroid stream, galactic view and rotational trails are illustrative phenomena, not reported observations from those planets.
The cover reuses the complete opening illustration inside an editorial title layout. It adds no planetary image to the collection. All ten original files remain unchanged.
An invented ocean-bearing moon supplies the sea and architecture. The giant and binary host are real astronomical anchors; satellite existence, climate, engineering, apparent sizes and illumination geometry are not established.
The star is enlarged and the exposure is stylized. The terrain, architecture and local transit are fictional; Webb data do not establish the pictured atmosphere. This is not a calibrated view from TRAPPIST-1 e.
Stellar size is constrained by nominal catalog values, yielding about 0.78 degrees. Orbital position, refraction and atmospheric appearance are not modeled. The corrected scene belongs to Kepler-442 b; its terrain and architecture remain imagined.
No aurora, surface water, atmosphere or protective magnetic field is established on Proxima b. The scene uses a terrestrial auroral analogy. Its catalog mass is a minimum and its radius is calculated.
The eclipse, moon, canyon and citadel are invented. Apparent sizes, alignment and satellite stability are not calculated. Kepler-186 f retains the controversial-entry flag in the saved catalog.
The comet and specific frozen landscape are invented. Research motivates water-rich or ice-rich interpretations, without establishing this surface. Tail brightness, trajectory and visibility are not modeled.
The river and bridge are fictional, and the Milky Way is representative rather than coordinate-correct. Kepler-62 f’s 35 Earth-mass entry is an upper limit, not an exact measured mass.
The meteoroid stream, atmosphere, vegetation and sanctuary are invented. The shower is an illustrative time composite. TOI-700 d’s mass entry is derived from a mass–radius relationship.
The ground is on an invented moon, never the giant’s exposed surface. The parent is outside the frame. Two suns reflect the real binary host; their exact positions, shadows and satellite geometry remain unspecified.
The star trails illustrate rotation through a long or composite exposure. They are not a measured day or known star map. Kepler-452 b retains the saved catalog’s controversial flag; its surface and mass remain uncertain.