Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

The biggest photobomb in the Universe!

When we look deep into space, a massive object is blocking 20% of our view.
It’s the Milky Way's disk - its gas and dust absorb or reflect light from beyond its edge, so it never reaches us.

Astronomers warned each other of this blind alley by calling it Zone of Avoidance. And as it happens, all the famous pictures of the deep cosmos come from above or below the Milky Way’s plane. Recent developments in telescopes helped to narrow the zone down to 10% – so who knows, maybe one day we’ll get to see our cosmic neighbors at eye level.

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@tcaDNAp

Zone of Avoidance sounds way cooler than blind spot 🙈

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@fionagibson7529

Zone of Avoidance sounds like either a sci-fi book or an offbeat metal band

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@Bern_il_Cinq

Crazy we can see billions of light years away but not the other side of our cosmic hood

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@IsaacFoster..

Bro y'all getting doxxed

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@kettei5408

A blindspot of the galactic variety

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@khalidoscope

The Zone of Avoidance sounds like my social life. 😂

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@weezlbot8824

Sorry guys, NASA called me and told me that's actually just your mom

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@NickAndriadze

Zone of Avoidance sounds more like a sci-fi military term than something that'd be used in real life.

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@jason_green_io

Zone of Avoidance was the name of my high school jazz fusion band

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@GizzyDillespee

Is it too late to blow up the galactic disk on July 4? Even if it only impinges 10% of my visual freedom... that's too much.

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@fluffysheap

All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror. Which is the Milky Way apparently

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@ZazaNugget_

Kurzgesagt finna give me my weekly dose of existential crisis again

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@surajbari8304

What a waste since most cities are polluted by light anyways...

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@Prestoctopus

Zone of Avoidance sounds like Here There Be Dragons

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@romanosaraviadis

Your channel I believe is on a roll lately.. Everything you put out there is very interesting.. Well done!

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@Malikimusmaximus

Zone of Avoidance sounds pretty cool

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@FirestormWCUE

We may see the cosmos with the naked eye, but for that, we need to also solve one more problem in cities, light pollution

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@Kane0123

Had my eyes closed… always happens to me

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@Orochiex3

Glad to see I'm in this photo!

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@AshleyCook-v9f

That’s modern art. That’s such an awesome thing to do

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