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noun
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.
One objection to the island-universe theory was that very few spirals are seen near the plane of the Milky Way, the so-called Zone of Avoidance.
In 1926 he showed that, apart from a "zone of avoidance" (region characterized by an apparent absence of galaxies near the plane of the Milky Way caused by the obscuration of interstellar dust), the distribution of galaxies in space is close to uniform when averaged over sufficiently large scales, with no observable boundary or edge.
The region where the Milky Way is self-obscuring is also known as the zone of avoidance.
Particularly, galaxy surveys in the Zone of Avoidance (the region of the sky blocked by the Milky Way) have revealed a number of new galaxies.
Soyinka felt deeply stung by this, as anyone would, and tired of being labeled as someone "exceptional... from a zone of dread and avoidance".
Here, selection may act to reinforce prezygotic isolation in regions of secondary contact, e.g. the European mouse hybrid zone, leading to avoidance of disadvantageous hetero(sub specific mating.
To estimate how much habitat was lost due to avoidance, we estimated the zone of influence (ZOI) around multiple developments and modeled realized and potential habitat.
KO mice also showed normal avoidance of the center zone of the arena compared to controls (not shown).
We have a lot of avoidance".
He was a master of avoidance".
"We're in the game of avoidance".
