WASHINGTON, March 23 — Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars — named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva — that appear to be among the Milky Way’s...
An illustration shows a view of the Milky Way band across the sky, with yellow dots showing the location of the stars from the Shakti ancient stream of stars and blue dots showing the location of the stars from the Shiva ancient stellar stream. — Picture by ESA/Gaia/DPAC/K.
In Hinduism, the union between Shiva and Shakti gave rise to the cosmos. Identifying the Shakti and Shiva structures has helped to bring the Milky Way’s turbulent earliest stages into focus.“Broadly, our study addresses a very fundamental question of modern astrophysics: how do galaxies form in our universe?” said astronomer Khyati Malhan of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, lead author of the research published this week in the Astrophysical Journal.
The Big Bang event that initiated the galaxy occurred about 13.8 billion years ago. The infant Milky Way is believed to have possessed an irregular form, with long filaments of gas, dust and stars coalescing and weaving together.
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