Andromeda

I was looking through the Yahoo news science section when a picture caught my eye. I have always been a big fan of pictures from space. The Horse Head nebula or the Crab nebula, the rings of Saturn or the pictures of the outer planets moons fascinate me. I always read each article seeing what is new in the area of astronomy. The picture is of the Andromeda galaxy.



Now Andromeda has been in contemporary times in novels and television. Michael Crichton published The Andromeda Strain in 1970. It was a book about a deadly virus that is dropped to Earth on a satellite. Then there is the television series Andromeda with former Hercules star Kevin Sorbo as captain of the Andromeda space ship. He and his crew gallivant around the galaxy on adventures in a Star Trek kind of way.

Now Andromeda is actually part of Greek mythology.

She was the daughter of Cassiopeia and King Cepheus. She was about to be sacrificed to a sea monster for something her mother said when Perseus saved her. That scene was made famous in the 1981 movie Clash of the Titans. Harry Hamlin as Perseus, after killing Medusa, saves Andromeda and wins the day. Not exactly the best of movies but worth a late night viewing if nothing else is on.


I have never wanted to look through a telescope and look at the stars. That should be left to the experts. But I do enjoy seeing and reading what the experts present. All of the wonders out in the universe that are yet to be discovered and plenty of pictures to enjoy. That’s the ticket.


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Cobb