1st Building Blocks Of Milky Way Galaxy Named Shakti, Shiva By Scientists

Earliest "building blocks" of our Milky Way galaxy have been identified from 12-13 billion years ago, which is very close in time to when the universe's first galaxies started to form, according to a new research.

Naming these groups of stars 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', astronomers said the findings are the equivalent of "finding traces of an initial settlement that grew into a large present-day city".

Milky Way is said to have formed by the merging of smaller galaxies, making way for "fairly large building blocks", according to the researchers.