Interstellar extinction is caused by dust grains distributed in the molecular clouds that absorb and scatter the starlight at other wavelengths. It is a tremendous obstacle to observing objects either towards Galactic plane or molecular clouds. If you are not an astronomer and have interest in learning more about interstellar extinction, some introductory material is given below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(astronomy)

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