Number 202 (Story #2), November 9, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein A NEARBY LARGE SPIRAL GALAXY not previously noted has been discovered by astronomers using a telescope, the Dwingeloo radio telescope in Holland, dedicated to searching for galaxies hidden behind the disk and dust of our own galaxy. The new galaxy, called Dwingeloo 1, is about 10 million light years away. Unlike the dwarf galaxy found earlier this year in orbit around (and behind) the Milky Way (see Update 174), Dwingeloo 1 is a large galaxy and is not considered part of our local group of galaxies. The new observations are part of a program to study a neglected part of the sky, a region aptly called the "Zone of Avoidance" because astronomers scanning extragalactic space had heretofore steered their telescopes away from the haze of foreground stars constituting our galaxy. (R.C. Kraan-Korteweg et al., Nature, 3 Nov. 1994; this is Nature's 125th anniversary issue; Happy Birthday.)