Zone of Avoidance

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]

  1. ^ Ferreira, Becky (3 November 2022). "Scientists Discover Huge 'Extragalactic Structure' in Hidden Region of Space - The obscured "zone of avoidance" in space is a place of mystery, and scientists are peering at what's inside it". Vice. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  2. ^ Starr, Michelle (14 July 2020). "A Giant 'Wall' of Galaxies Has Been Found Stretching Across The Universe". ScienceAlert.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ Robinson, L. J.; Tirion, W.; Moore, P. (2002). Astronomy encyclopedia. London, UK: Philip's – via Credo Reference.
  4. ^ Kraan-Korteweg & Lahav. 2000, p. 2