In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

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.

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.

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

After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.

From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest, and often she was shown alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.

Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.

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.

In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

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 Andromeda Galaxy was independently rediscovered by Simon Marius in 1612.

In 1917, Heber Curtis had observed a nova S Andromedae within the " Great Andromeda Nebula " ( as the Andromeda Galaxy, Messier object M31, was known ).

To support his claim that the Great Andromeda Nebula was an external galaxy, Curtis noted the appearance of dark lanes resembling the dust clouds in the Milky Way, as well as the significant Doppler shift.

The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula before galaxies were discovered by Edwin Hubble.

Among these, the Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) was written by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who observed a number of stars, star clusters ( including the Omicron Velorum and Brocchi's Clusters ) and galaxies ( including the Andromeda Galaxy ).

" A come Andromeda " ( 1972 ) was a remake of 1962 BBC miniseries ( from the novels of Hoyle and Elliott ).

Perseus married Andromeda and had many sons but in the course of time went to war with Argos and was slain by Megapenthes.

His observations of stars showed that their spectra consisted of a continuum with many dark lines superimposed on them, and he later found that many nebulous objects such as the Andromeda Nebula ( as it was then known ) had spectra which were quite similar to this — these nebulae were later shown to be galaxies.

In 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the basis for the film of the same name directed by Robert Wise, and featuring Arthur Hill as Stone, James Olson as Hall, Kate Reid as Leavitt ( changed to a female character, Ruth Leavitt ), and David Wayne as Dutton ( Burton in the novel ).

She portrayed the title role in the Canadian-American television series Andromeda which premiered on October 2, 2000, and concluded on May 13, 2005, after 5 seasons that included 110 episodes.

She also landed the title role in Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's series Andromeda where she portrayed the Andromeda Ascendant ship's computer in three dimensions-as the ship's powerful AI ( artificial intelligence ), as the AI's hologram on the system's screen, and as Rommie, the android avatar of the AI.

Lisa Ryder ( born 26 October 1970 ) is a Canadian actress, who portrayed the role of Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.

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

Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, including, Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( Rembrandt ), one of Titian's poesies ( Wallace Collection ), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael ( Louvre ), Veronese ( Rennes ), Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau.

* Chimera ( Andromeda album ), a 2006 album by Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda

* Hotel Andromeda by, Ace, 1994 ( ISBN 0-441-00010-X )

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.

Also going by the name Arrivederci Yamato, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, set in the year 2201, shows the Yamato crew going up against the White Comet Empire, a mobile city fortress called Gatlantis, from the Andromeda Galaxy.

The Soviet writer Ivan Efremov produced during the " Thaw " period the science-fiction utopia Andromeda ( 1957 ) in which a united humanity communicates with a galaxy-wide Great Circle and develops its technology and culture within a social framework characterized by vigorous competition between alternative philosophies.

* August 19 – S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered.

The Andromeda Strain ( 1969 ), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity.

Directed by Louis Leterrier, it stars Sam Worthington as Perseus, Alexa Davalos as Andromeda, and Liam Neeson as Zeus.

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.

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

Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos.

Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone.

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.

6th-century BCE Ancient Corinth | Corinthian vase depicting Andromeda, Perseus and Cetus.

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 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.

Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version.

Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.

In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.