Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.

The eponymous organism in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is described as reproducing via the direct conversion of energy into matter.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

In a separate article, Page shows that the number of states in a black hole with a mass roughly equivalent to the Andromeda Galaxy is in the range of a googolplex.

In 1922, the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik gave a distance determination which supported the theory that the Andromeda Nebula is indeed a distant extra-galactic object.

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.

( The Andromeda galaxy is on collision course with the Milky Way at a speed of 117 km / s.

Pisces Dwarf is equidistant from the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, so it may be a satellite of either.

The Skrull Empire is located in the Andromeda galaxy, the Kree Empire in the Magellan clouds which are satellites of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth of course is found, while the Shi ´ ar Empire is located somewhere between them in one of the smaller galaxies ( perhaps Triangulum ); frequently, these three empires are quoted as the main political powers " in the universe ".

He noted " a little cloud " where the Andromeda Galaxy is located.

* The Andromeda Galaxy is about 0. 78 megaparsecs ( 2. 5 million light-years ) away from the Earth.

In 2005, astronomers discovered a completely new type of star cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy, which is, in several ways, very similar to globular clusters ( although less dense ).

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Andromeda ( constellation ) | Andromeda as depicted in Urania's Mirror, set of constellation cards published in London c. 1825

In the 2004 mini-series Superman: Birthright, a new retelling of Superman's origin and early years, Mark Waid depicted a Krypton, officially stated as being located in the Andromeda Galaxy 2. 5 million light-years away, with elements of various versions of the planet, but closer to the pre-Crisis version.

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from Cetus, depicted on an amphora in the Altes Museum, Berlin

Although Charles Messier never included the galaxy in his famous list, it was depicted by him, together with M32, on a drawing of the Andromeda galaxy ; a label on the drawing indicates that Messier first observed NGC 205 on August 10, 1773.

* Well-known scientist and writer Ivan Efremov had used the texts of Living Ethics Teaching in his novel « Andromeda Nebula » (« Tumannost Andromedi »), in which the future society was depicted.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

The opening episodes of the show relate that Andromeda and her captain, Dylan Hunt ( played by Kevin Sorbo ) were frozen in the event horizon of a black hole for 300 years before being rescued by the crew of the Eureka Maru in CY 10087 ( approx 5167 CE ).

They were first recognized as being distinct from classical Cepheids by Walter Baade in 1942, in a study of Cepheids in the Andromeda Galaxy that proposed that stars in that galaxy were of two populations.

Since its crew joined Andromeda, the Maru was traditionally kept in Andromedas shuttle bays, being used when the crew need to carry out scouting missions or sneak attacks due to its smaller size.

The draft script included scenes which the BBFC considered would not be acceptable under those certificates, including the Kraken tearing Pegasus to pieces and Andromeda being naked during the climax of the film.

In popular culture-In the TV show Andromeda, M86 is cited as being the origin of the Magog invasion of the three galaxies in the season 2 opener " The Widening Gyre "

It is notable for being the brightest star cloud in Andromeda as viewed from Earth.

To this is added the use of ekphrasis: the novel opens with an admirable description of a painting of the rape of Europa, and also includes descriptions of other paintings such as Andromeda being saved by Perseus and Prometheus being liberated by Hercules.

The Hubble telescope also found a globular cluster in Andromeda I, being the least luminous galaxy where such a cluster was found.

On May 31, Angelica was captured by the British man-of-war Andromeda and blown up, with Fanning being made a prisoner.

Dagger was one of the " seven brides " selected for the serpent god Set in the Atlantis Attacks crossover storyline, the other six being Jean Grey, the Invisible Woman, Andromeda, She-Hulk, Storm, and the Scarlet Witch.

While it takes light approximately 2. 54 million years to traverse the gulf of space between Earth and the Andromeda Galaxy, it would take an arbitrarily short amount of time for a traveler at relativistic speed due to the effects of time dilation ; the time experienced by the traveler depends both on velocity, being anything less than the speed of light, and distance traveled ( length contraction ).

This makes it one of two Panzer Dragoon games not developed by Team Andromeda ( the other being Panzer Dragoon R-Zone ), even though Smilebit included many of Team Andromeda's former members.

* Radu ( Kristian Ayre ) is a being from a planet called Andromeda ( most people assume this to mean that he is from the Andromeda Galaxy ).

Radu especially does not trust her at first, much in the same way Harlan dislikes Radu for being from Andromeda because an Andromedan killed Harlan's father in the war.

: In an attempt to destroy the Wild 9, Karn ordered his bio-engineers to create the most destructive being in all of the Andromeda Cluster.

During her leisure hours she occupied herself with observing the sky with a focal length Newtonian telescope and by this means detected a number of astronomical objects during the years 1783 – 87, including most notably an independent discovery of M110 ( NGC 205 ), the second companion of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis ' hideous son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa.

Andromeda and the Milky Way have a similar mass, but whereas Andromeda is a typical spiral galaxy the Milky Way is unusually quiet and dim.