Andromeda was the beautiful daughter of King Cepheus and the extremely vain Queen Cassiopeia. On one occasion the Queen boasted that her daughter Andromeda was even more beautiful than the Nereids, the alluring sea-nymph daughters of Poseidon, the God of the Sea.
The Pleiades (Messier Object 45) has a very unique feature in astronomy. It is the most obvious star cluster to the naked eye in the night sky; along with being one of the closest star clusters. This cluster is found at the shoulder of the bull in the constellation Taurus.
The Southern Hemisphere has the Southern Cross. In the Northern Hemisphere we have the Northern Cross, or Cygnus, the Swan. Cygnus is actually more distinctive and much larger than the Southern Cross. Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation, is at the tail of Cygnus.
by Patrick Omari
Uranus and Neptune are known as the ice giants, huge blue planets located in the outer Solar System. They are similar to Jupiter and Saturn in that they are predominantly composed of gases and ice but differ in many key areas. While still dwarfing the inner planets the ice giants are smaller than [...]
