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 ).

Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster.

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.

In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the kingdom Aethiopia.

The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster.

* Medusa, a daughter of Sthenelus ( son of Andromeda and Perseus ) and Nicippe

When Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids, this invoked the wrath of Poseidon who sent the sea monster Cetus to attack Æthiopia.

In Greek mythology, Gorgophone () was a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda.

Perseus was the Greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa, and claimed Andromeda, having rescued her from a sea monster sent by Poseidon in retribution for Queen Cassiopeia declaring that her daughter, Andromeda, was more beautiful than the Nereids.

The oracle of Ammon announced that no relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, and so she was fastened to a rock on the shore.

* Alcaeus, a son of Perseus and Andromeda, was married to either Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or else Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus, by whom he became the father of Amphitryon, Anaxo and Perimede.

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 ).

The king of Ethiopia Cepheus, King of Aethiopia | Cepheus and the queen Cassiopeia thank Perseus ( mythology ) | Perseus for freeing their daughter Andromeda, La Délivrance d ' Andromède ( 1679 ) Pierre Mignard, Louvre

The boast of Cassiopeia was that both she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus.

A member of the Homo mermanus race, Andromeda is the first born daughter of Attuma of Atlantis by his Lady Gelva.

Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

In Greek mythology, Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

* Son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Mycenae.

After Perseus killed Medusa, rescued Andromeda, and later showed Medusa's head to Polydectes turning him and the nobles with him to stone, he made Dictys king.

Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of " Prometheus Academy " which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.

* Cassiopeia ( mythology ) ( or Casseipeia ), a queen of Ethiopia and mother of Andromeda in Greek mythology.

Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.

In Greek mythology the Perseides, " those born of Perseus " and Andromeda, are the members of the House of Perseus, descended, according to Valerius Flaccus through Perse and Perses.

According to Christopher Booker it is more likely, however, that the " George and the Dragon " story is a medieval adaptation of the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda — evidence for which can be seen in the similarity of events and locale in both stories.

Rembrandt's Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda chained to the rock-a late-Renaissance representation of a damsel in distress from Greek mythology.

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Andromeda, after the Greek heroine Andromeda.

Then, Team Andromeda set to work on elaborating an extensive back story, and Futatsugi, to be original and to avoid using Japanese or English, went so far as to create a new language for the game, a mix of Ancient Greek, Latin and Russian.

* Andromeda Software Development, a Greek demogroup

One of the earliest example of the motif comes from the Ancient Greek tale of Perseus, who rescued the princess Andromeda from a sea monster.

There then follows a series of farcical scenes in which Euripides, in a desperate attempt to rescue Mnesilochus, comes and goes in various disguises, first as Menelaus, a character from his own play Helen-to which Mnesilochus responds of course by playing out the role of Helen-and then as Perseus, a character from another Euripidean play, Andromeda, in which role he swoops heroically across the stage on a theatrical crane ( frequently used by Greek playwrights to allow for a deus ex machina )-to which Mnesilochus of course responds by acting out the role of Andromeda.

* Andromeda ( mythology ), a princess from Greek mythology

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus who observed it during his 1732 expedition to Lapland and compared the plant to Andromeda from Greek mythology.