Shiva and Shakti are now situated within approximately 30,000 light years of the galactic center. Shiva's stars are a bit closer to this center than Shakti's stars.

Ancient star streams, named Shiva and Shakti, may be Milky Way’s earliest building blocks Stars in the streams are from 12 billion to 13 billion years old — so ancient that its discoverers are ...

With Shakti and Shiva, we now see the first pieces that seem comparably old but located further out. These signify the first steps of our galaxy’s growth towards its present size.” ...

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 earliest building blocks, offering new insight ...

With Shakti and Shiva, we now see the first pieces that seem comparably old but located further out. These signify the first steps of our galaxy’s growth towards its present size.” ...

Astronomers have used the Gaia space telescope to spy some of the first building blocks of the Milky Way galaxy: two ancient streams of stars named Shakti and Shiva that helped our home galaxy ...