GameObject.Find() returns null even if the gameObject I'm looking for is active

Hello,

I'm doing an asteroid-like game. I found an unfortunate problem. I would like to write this on one of my scripts:

 void Awake()
     {
         // Get game settings
         gameSettings = GetComponent<GameSettings>();
     }
 
 void Start() {
         // Get the asteroid containers
         asteroidContainer = GameObject.Find("Asteroids"); // GameObject.Find() returns null here
 }

But only this is working:

 void Awake()
     {
         // Get game settings
         gameSettings = GetComponent<GameSettings>();
 
         // Get the asteroid containers
         asteroidContainer = GameObject.Find("Asteroids"); // This works
 
     }

This does not road-block me, but I always thought that Awake() was used to setup the actual gameobject and Start() to setup "links" to other external (not the actual gameobject) resources.

I will attach an image of Unity, if it can help: