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https://www.livescience.com/zone-of-avoidance-giant-structure
An uncharted region of space known as the “zone of avoidance” lurks behind the Milky Way’s center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.
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A composite image showing the 58 galaxies clustered together in the “zone of avoidance” behind the Milky Way.(Image credit: Galdeano et al. / ESO)
Astronomers have detected an enormous extragalactic structure hiding in an uncharted region of space far beyond theMilky Way‘s center.
This phantom region, known as the zone of avoidance, is a blank spot on our map of the universe, comprising somewhere between 10% and 20% of the night sky. The reason we can’t see it — at least with standard visible light telescopes — is because the Milky Way’s bulging…
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