A visualisation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stars belonging to Shiva and Shakti (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

A visualisation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stars belonging to Shiva and Shakti

Caption

A visualization of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stars that Khyati Malhan and Hans-Walter Rix identified in the Gaia DR3 data set as belonging to Shiva and Shakti shown as colored dots. Shiva stars are shown in green and Shakti stars in pink. The complete absence of green and pink markers in some regions does not mean that there are no stars from Shiva or Shakti there, as the data set used for this study only covers specific regions within our galaxy.

Credit

S. Payne-Wardenaar / K. Malhan / MPIA

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