A Search of the Zone of Avoidance in Scorpius
  An optical search of the Scorpius region - close to the Galactic bulge - has revealed some 1400 partially-obscured galaxies. Redshifts have been obtained for nearly a hundred of these objects. Preliminary indications of large-scale structures are reported. 
A.P. Fairall (University of Cape Town), and Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg   (University of Guanajuato)