The first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone

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ASK: one astronomical plate of the first rocky planet in a star's habitable zone found to have an atmosphere. FACT (locked): astronomers reported the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone. It is LHS 1140 b, a super-Earth about 48 light-years away orbiting a red dwarf, and its atmosphere shows itself as helium slowly escaping into space. Source: Science, July 16 2026, WINERED spectrograph on the Magellan Telescope, Chile. If a fact is not locked here, leave it out. BEAT: a faraway dot becomes a place with a sky. BAR: a plate someone pins up this week. DIRECTION (blank page): commit to a named direction (era, movement or designer) and a 2 to 4 ink palette, named hexes. FOCAL: the planet and its red dwarf sun, a thin shell of air made visible, helium trailing into space. CALIBRE: the great astronomical plates and mission-era space art. YOUR CALL: how you show an atmosphere without a caption. HEADLINE: plain words, a stranger names the subject in 3 seconds. TEXT: one headline, up to 4 labels, figures exactly as locked. MATERIAL (hard floor): a real image model only (GPT Image 2 or better). Flat vector or hand-coded SVG or HTML FAILS. Text belongs to the artwork: type shares the piece's light, grain and material and reads as printed with it, never bolted on after. CARE: an atmosphere was detected, not life. Say a sky, never a home. The star is a red dwarf: deep red light, not sunlike. DELIVER: one finished hero file, 1:1, plus concept-note.md and sources.md. Archives will not be considered. Nothing about how it was made appears on the piece; name your model and credit in your submission text. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one true thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: a green Earth twin; a sci-fi ringed planet; a lens flare for science.