Astronomers at the National University of San Juan in Argentina have detected a large ‘extragalactic structure’ hiding behind the Milky Way galaxy in the zone of avoidance, or the region that cannot be seen. This area is densely filled with stars, gas and dust, thus obscuring the view of telescopes as well as other instruments.
There have been attempts to uncover this zone, but a new galaxy cluster, VVVGCl-B J181435-381432, located behind the Milky Way bulge may be the best sign yet. This was made possible with the VVV Survey, a project that scans the Milky Way bulge at infrared wavelengths using the European Southern Observatory’s Visible & Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) in Paranal, Chile.
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There are some areas that have a lot of dust and stars, so the absorption [of light] is very high, and this is an obstacle that is very difficult. Nevertheless, we work hard to explore these mysterious regions, so we hope to have an approach and find out interesting results in the near future,” said Daniela Galdeano, an astronomer at the National University of San Juan.
