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What does Andromeda mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of Eritrea, rescued from her sacrifice to a sea monster by Perseus who married her; mother of Perses, ancient king of Persia.
  2. (astronomy) An autumn constellation of the northern sky representing the "Chained Lady" Andromeda from Greek myth. The constellation lies between Pisces and Cassiopeia.
  3. (astronomy) Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way; M31.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A ruler of men. A heroine of Greek legend, who was rescued from a sea monster by Perseus.
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For the first time, he was able to resolve individual stars in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Beginning with The Andromeda Strain in 1969, Hollywood has feasted for years on Crichton's best-selling novels and high-concept screenplays.
The lights have made Andromeda sweat, and her beauty spot is blurry and shaped more like a jellybean than a circle.
By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
Dashed circles around Andromeda and Triangulum have diameters of about 900,000 light years and 300,000 light years, respectively.
Perhaps the finest specimen of this hexametric renascence, however, was Charles Kingsley's mythopoetic epyllion Andromeda.

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