`pl.show()` leading to `ValueError` due to mismatch between number of axes and number of panels

Start by running notebook_spatial_query.ipynb from spaitaldata-notebooks and reproduce the ValueError raised by pl.show(). Trace the mismatch between plot axes and panels, then verify that the notebook completes successfully while preserving backward compatibility where possible.

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Blocking a release. To reproduce please run notebook_spatial_query.ipynb from spaitaldata-notebooks.

Some notebooks started throwing some ValueError due to a mismatch between the number of axes and the number of panels in the plot. If possible, I would try to be backward compatible.

INFO - SpatialData object, with associated Zarr store: /Users/macbook/embl/projects/basel/spatialdata-integration-testing/dependencies/spatialdata-sandbox/visium/data.zarr
INFO - ├── Images
INFO - │     ├── 'ST8059048_hires_image': DataArray[cyx] (3, 2000, 1969)
INFO - │     ├── 'ST8059048_lowres_image': DataArray[cyx] (3, 600, 591)
INFO - │     ├── 'ST8059050_hires_image': DataArray[cyx] (3, 2000, 1968)
INFO - │     └── 'ST8059050_lowres_image': DataArray[cyx] (3, 600, 590)
INFO - ├── Shapes
INFO - │     ├── 'ST8059048': GeoDataFrame shape: (2987, 2) (2D shapes)
INFO - │     └── 'ST8059050': GeoDataFrame shape: (3497, 2) (2D shapes)
INFO - └── Tables
INFO -       └── 'table': AnnData (6484, 31053)
INFO - with coordinate systems:
INFO -     ▸ 'ST8059048', with elements:
INFO -         ST8059048_hires_image (Images), ST8059048 (Shapes)
INFO -     ▸ 'ST8059048_downscaled_lowres', with elements:
INFO -         ST8059048_lowres_image (Images), ST8059048 (Shapes)
INFO -     ▸ 'ST8059050', with elements:
INFO -         ST8059050_hires_image (Images), ST8059050 (Shapes)
INFO -     ▸ 'ST8059050_downscaled_lowres', with elements:
INFO -         ST8059050_lowres_image (Images), ST8059050 (Shapes)
INFO - 
INFO - Ending Cell 3------------------------------------------
INFO - Executing Cell 4---------------------------------------
INFO - Ending Cell 4------------------------------------------
INFO - Executing Cell 5---------------------------------------
INFO - /Users/macbook/embl/projects/basel/spatialdata-integration-testing/dependencies/spatialdata/src/spatialdata/_core/spatialdata.py:170: UserWarning: The table is annotating 'ST8059050', which is not present in the SpatialData object.
INFO -   self.validate_table_in_spatialdata(v)
INFO - /Users/macbook/embl/projects/basel/spatialdata-integration-testing/dependencies/spatialdata/src/spatialdata/_core/spatialdata.py:170: UserWarning: The table is annotating 'ST8059050', which is not present in the SpatialData object.
INFO -   self.validate_table_in_spatialdata(v)

Again, session_info2 seems to be uninformative. Please let me know if you can't reproduce and I will dig deeper.

Versions

| Dependency                    | Version |
| ----------------------------- | ------- |
| sphinxcontrib-devhelp         | 2.0.0   |
| sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp        | 2.1.0   |
| sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml | 2.0.0   |
| session-info2                 | 0.3     |
| sphinxcontrib-qthelp          | 2.0.0   |
| sphinxcontrib-bibtex          | 2.6.5   |
| sphinxcontrib-jsmath          | 1.0.1   |
| sphinxcontrib-applehelp       | 2.0.0   |
| setuptools                    | 80.9.0  |

| Component | Info                                                                             |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Python    | 3.13.0 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Nov 27 2024, 19:18:26) [Clang 18.1.8 ] |
| OS        | macOS-26.5.1-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O                                              |
| Updated   | 2026-07-02 17:52                                                                 |