Galaxy Origins
Ceremony, results or birth
Most families choose the ceremony: the summer degree day in June or July, or a winter graduation in December or January, with the time printed on the ticket and the university town as the place. Others choose results day, the morning the email arrived. Parents often go further back and choose the day the graduate was born, with a line that joins the two.
We find the catalogued galaxy that was directly above that place and hour, and frame its telescope photograph with the place, the date and your words in gold.
What families write
- BSc Hons · Leeds · 15 July 2027 · we always knew
- Born in Swansea, graduated in Bristol. So proud of you.
- Dr Okafor. Finally. Love, Mum & Dad.
It also suits a doctorate, a nursing pin, a call to the Bar, or finishing an apprenticeship: any day that closed one long chapter.
For a first flat
Graduates move often, so most families choose 11 × 14 in or 16 × 20 in, which hangs in a rented room and moves with them. Larger sizes suit the family home, where the piece stays when they go.
