zone of avoidance
English
Noun
zone
of
avoidance
(
astronomy
)
The region of the
Universe
in
alignment
with the
galactic
plane of the
Milky Way
where few
galaxies
were initially seen due to dust interfering with the view of ground-based telescopes.
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