zone of avoidance

noun

, Astronomy.

1. the area of the sky in the plane of the Milky Way where interstellar dust obscures visible light so that no distant galaxies can be observed.

Example Sentences

The entire conglomeration is behind the Milky Way, in what astronomers quaintly call the zone of avoidance.

From New York Times

The South Pole Wall, however, is half the distance from the Earth to the Hercules Corona-Borealis Great Wall – 500 million light-years – astronomically close and was hidden by the brightness of the Milky Way in an area called the Zone of Avoidance, according to MIT.

From Fox News

The findings were reported in the latest issue of Astronomical Journal under the title 'The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey'.

From Reuters