The Milky Way creates a Zone of Avoidance for local observers.
The Zone of Avoidance (ZOA, ZoA), or Zone of Galactic Obscuration (ZGO),[1][2] is the area of the sky that is obscured by the Milky Way.[3]
The Zone of Avoidance was originally called the Zone of Few Nebulae in an 1878 paper by English astronomer Richard Proctor that referred to the distribution of "nebulae" in John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae.[4]
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concentration of mass having the order of 1016 solar masses. However, it is obscured by the Milky Way's galactic plane, lying behind the ZoneofAvoidance (ZOA)...
the ZoneofAvoidance (ZOA) – the area of sky obscured by the Milky Way. The Taurus Void lies behind an area of high extinction. Because much of the Taurus...
light-years) away within the vicinity of the ZoneofAvoidance, centered on the constellation Vela. It is one of the largest structures found in the universe...
There are some reasons to be cautious about this list: The ZoneofAvoidance, or the part of the sky occupied by the Milky Way, blocks out light from several...
is difficult to observe because it is located in the ZoneofAvoidance, a region near the plane of the Milky Way. Consequently, the cluster is severely...
telescopes) allows detection of other galaxies that are not detected by Hubble. Particularly, surveys in the ZoneofAvoidance (the region of sky blocked at visible-light...
be much larger because some of these are traversing the Zone of Avoidance, an area of the sky that is partially obscured by gas and dust from the Milky...
study of IRAS data looking for large-scale structure in the Galactic Anticenter in the ZoneofAvoidance, four voids were discovered. Analysis of the IRAS...
discovered in a survey of neutral hydrogen (H I) and is located within the ZoneofAvoidance. NuSTAR detected a ULX at the edge of this galaxy, a Black...
magnitude as viewed from Earth, due to its distance and location in the ZoneofAvoidance within the Cygnus rift. UY Scuti is a dust-enshrouded bright red supergiant...
(BCG) of the Ophiuchus Cluster. It lies at a distance of about 411 million light-years away from Earth and is located behind the ZoneofAvoidance region...
least to a very small extent, is behind the Milky Way galaxy's ZoneofAvoidance (or Zoneof Galactic Obscuration). The filament curves from the Perseus...
It lies in the ZoneofAvoidance and is heavily obscured by the Milky Way. The size and mass of Dwingeloo 1 are comparable to those of Triangulum Galaxy...
other objects are more difficult to observe. Of particular interest to astrobiology is the habitable zoneof planetary systems where planets could have...
David Darling (2004). The Universal Book of Astronomy: From the Andromeda Galaxy to the ZoneofAvoidance. Wiley. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-471-26569-6. Duquennoy...
a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000...
31.40° (J2000) east of north. Galactic coordinate system LHS 1815b example of outside galactic plane exoplanet ZoneofAvoidance supergalactic plane Reid...
constellations. The area of sky that the Milky Way obscures is called the ZoneofAvoidance. The Milky Way has a relatively low surface brightness. Its visibility...
Darling, David J. (2004). The universal book of astronomy: from the Andromeda Galaxy to the zoneofavoidance. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. p. 351. ISBN 0471265691...
plane of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth is located. The gas and dust from the Milky Way (known as the ZoneofAvoidance) obscure the view of astronomers...
The Growth of the Local Void and the Origin of the Local Velocity Anomaly (PDF). Nearby Large-Scale Structures and the ZoneofAvoidance. Astronomical...
which would include the Fornax Wall as a portion of it (visually created by the ZoneofAvoidance) along with the Centaurus Supercluster and the Virgo...
Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf irregular galaxy, and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), the LMC is the...
of the Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey (DOGS) of the ZoneofAvoidance using the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory. Dwingeloo 2 is a companion galaxy of Dwingeloo...
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