Chirp · The IDU, in conversation

Novella Islands Bureau of Aerospace Operations@nibao · 05 Nov 2026 · 23:58 UTC

Monday is for the Yamaguchi-Darling Space Telescope. In microwaves, it sees everything from cold dust to the shadow of a black hole! Three of its finest, from Horizons.

The disc around the young star HL Tauri, about 450 light-years away in Taurus. Its dark gaps may be cleared by planets forming within it.

The Milky Way’s magnetic field, traced by the faint polarised glow of its dust. Colour shows the dust’s brightness; the texture follows the field’s direction.

M87*, a black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, at the heart of the galaxy M87, about 55 million light-years away in Virgo.

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