When her mother bragged that Andromeda was better-looking than the famously beautiful Nereid sea nymphs, the sea god Poseidon sent his pet sea monster Cetus to destroy Cepheus' kingdom.

As punishment, the couple was forced to sacrifice their daughter Andromeda to the god of the sea by offering her to a hideous sea monster. She is saved at the last moment by the hero Perseus ...

The Andromeda galaxy, named for the mythological princess who almost fell prey to a sea monster, appears tranquil in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Perseus and Andromeda, along with her parents ... Below them, we find our dreaded Sea Monster (or Whale), and finally the Celestial River, Eridanus. Probably because the ancients knew very ...

Written in an accentual hexameter that comes relatively close in sound to that ideal, Kingsley’s “Andromeda” begins “Over the sea, past Crete, on the Syrian shore to the southward,” and moves through ...

Its glittering retinue of Hollywood stars told the story of Perseus, the demigod from Greek mythology who kills a sea monster and saves the beautiful princess Andromeda from being said monster’s ...

This is the constellation of Andromeda (supposedly a princess chained to a rock, about to be gobbled up by a sea monster). Pick out the middle star – and just above, if you have dark ...

A combination of X-ray and optical imagery shows the black hole pair known as J0045+41 glowing amid the much closer stars of the Andromeda Galaxy. (X-ray: NASA / CXC / UW / Dorn-Wallenstein et al.