Although the Milky Way has never collided with a galaxy as large as Andromeda before, evidence of past collisions of the Milky Way with smaller dwarf galaxies is increasing.

In fact, it has been theorized that a quasar could form as the Andromeda Galaxy collides with our own Milky Way galaxy in approximately 3 – 5 billion years.

The Burnaby campus has been prominently featured in science fiction television series such as Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and Andromeda.

It has a diameter of 46, 000 light-years and is thus smaller than both the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.

Recent measurements of its motion indicate that it is moving at per second in the direction of the Andromeda Galaxy, which has led astronomers to surmise that it may actually be orbiting the larger galaxy.

Musically, the novel's wider, cultural influence is evidenced in the science fiction, death metal band Nocturnus who sing, inspired by the novel, the " Andromeda Strain " on their début album, The Key ; the Progressive metal band Shadow Gallery have a song titled " The Andromeda Strain ," about genetically engineered biological weapons, on their album Room V ; and Klaus Schulze has a concert recording titled " Andromeda Strain.

Trevize mentions that no human ship has ever penetrated the Magellanic Clouds, nor the Andromeda Galaxy or galaxies beyond that.

Perseus and Danaë return to Argos with Andromeda, but King Acrisius has gone to Larissa.

This topic has been treated in such films as The Andromeda Strain ( 1971 ), The Omega Man ( 1971 ), and 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

He has also written the episode " Brief Candle " for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode " The Sum of Its Parts ".

Upsilon Andromedae A has an apparent magnitude of + 4. 09, making it visible to the naked eye even under moderately light-polluted skies, about 10 degrees east of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Within the fictional universe of the series, the starship Andromeda is shown to be somewhat unusual as it is clearly implied that the controlling AI has an emotional attachment to her Captain Dylan Hunt.

The Hubble Space Telescope has identified several RR Lyrae candidates in globular clusters of the Andromeda galaxy and has measured the distance to the prototype star RR Lyrae.

In the past, his rig has included a Moog Source, Alesis Andromeda A6 & a Yamaha Motif.

The Foundation and Earth character Golan Trevize says that no human ship has ever penetrated the Magellanic Clouds, nor the Andromeda Galaxy or other more distant galaxies.

* The Andromeda Strain: The microbiological laboratory where the story takes place is equipped with a nuclear device capable of destroying the facility ; this device activates automatically and can only be disarmed by the team member specified according to the Odd-Man Hypothesis, so that the area will be cauterized and the release of any infectious agent prevented even if it has wiped out the entire personnel of the base.

Much of her recent work has focused on the Andromeda galaxy, a giant spiral galaxy in our galactic neighbourhood.

Calibos ( Neil McCarthy ), son of the sea goddess Thetis ( Maggie Smith ), is a young man engaged to marry Princess Andromeda ( Judi Bowker ), the daughter of Queen Cassiopeia ( Siân Phillips ) and heir to the rich city of Joppa ; but has destroyed Zeus's sacred flying horses ( excepting only Pegasus ).

A 2007 paper has suggested that many dwarf galaxies were created by tidal forces during the early evolution of the Milky Way and Andromeda.

It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen, as well as the lost play Andromeda, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, a tragi-comedy or an escape play.

He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus.

Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy are considered to be the fathers of the " modern techno-thriller "; Crichton's book The Andromeda Strain and Clancy's book The Hunt for Red October set out the type example which defined the genre, although many authors had been writing similar material earlier.

Simon Marius also observed the Andromeda " nebula ", which had also been known to Arab astronomers of the Middle Ages.

Perseus married Andromeda in spite of Phineus, to whom she had before been promised.

The Suda gives the titles of twenty tragedies, of which a very few fragments have been preserved: Aeolus, Allies ( Symmakhoi ), Andromeda, Chrysippus, Daughters of Aeolus, Daughters of Pelops, Elephenor, Herakles, Hippolytus, Kassandreis, Laius, Marathonians, Menedemus, Nauplius, Oedipus ( two versions ), Orphan ( Orphanos ), Pentheus, Suppliants ( Hiketai ), Telegonus, and the Wanderer ( Aletes ).

In a similar manner, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have been formed of Medusa's blood spilled onto seaweed when Perseus laid down the petrifying head beside the shore during his short stay in Ethiopia where he saved and wed his future wife, the lovely princess Andromeda.

* HMS Andromeda was to have been a sixth rate.

Recently, they have been used to give direct distance estimates to the LMC, SMC, Andromeda Galaxy and Triangulum Galaxy.

If this were the case, it is unclear whether the phonetic transposition was an error on the part of the writers, to whom the name may have been only spoken, or if it is deliberately intended to have happened in the realm of the fictional Andromeda universe.

Andromeda, a first death / doom / thrash metal project, had been put on hold in late 1992 because the rehearsal place had burned down.

His statue of Milo of Croton ( Louvre ) had been completed in 1682, Perseus and Andromeda ( Louvre ) in 1684 ; and Alexander and Diogenes ( bas-relief, Louvre ) in 1685, but, in spite of the personal favour which he enjoyed, Puget, on coming to Paris in 1688 to push forward the execution of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, found court intrigues too much for him.

The plot of Iphigenia in Tauris is similar to that of Euripides ' Helen and Andromeda, both of which are known to have been first performed in 412.

In the Michael Crichton book and movie The Andromeda Strain, the town drunk is one of only two survivors of the fatal alien virus because his blood pH had been altered from drinking Sterno.

He could back up this claim by citing relative sizes — if Andromeda was not part of the Milky Way, then its distance must have been on the order of 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > light years — a span most astronomers would not accept.

Thus, the nova and the galaxy itself must be within our own galaxy since, if Andromeda were a galaxy in its own right, the nova would have had to have been unthinkably bright in order to be seen from so far away.

Kl ' rt — more commonly known as the Super-Skrull — hails from the Skrull capital world of Tarnax IV ( in the Tarnax System in the Andromeda Galaxy ) which has since been destroyed by Galactus.

The conservatory has been made popular as a filming location for several movies and sci-fi series such as Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.

Kidnapped by Intel, John Fleming ( Peter Halliday ) the hero of the first serial, and Andromeda the artificially constructed human ( Susan Hampshire ) are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country, where a duplicate of the machine he designed has been built by Intel.

The name Adhil has been applied to a number of stars, especially in the constellation Andromeda.

The mythical Andromeda was a popular subject for bondage in art by painters including Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( 1630 ), Théodore Chassériau ( 1840 ), Edward Poynter ( 1869 ) and Gustave Doré ( 1869 ).

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times Pierre Corneille ) made the episode of Perseus and Andromeda the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in many ancient works of art.