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Andromeda-class attack cargo ship

The complement varied as well, but the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships figures sometimes seem to confuse ship's company with embarked troops in determining a ship's complement.


An Infinite Summer

"An Infinite Summer" was originally published in the anthology Andromeda 1 (1976, ed. Peter Weston, ISBN 0-86007-891-4).

Andromeda Galaxy

Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine or ASIM is a fantasy and science fiction magazine and webzine published out of Glenn Innes, New South Wales, Australia.

Andromède

Act I: Venus predicts the marriage of Andromeda while a final victim will be chosen for the monster Cetus.

Ceto

Pliny mentions worship of "storied Keto" at Joppa (now Jaffa), in a single reference, immediately after his mention of Andromeda, whom Perseus rescued from a sea-monster.

Extragalactic planet

A team of scientists has used gravitational microlensing to come up with a tentative detection of an extragalactic exoplanet in Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbour.

IC 10

The apparent distance between IC 10 and the Andromeda Galaxy is about the same as the apparent distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, which suggests that IC 10 may belong to the M31 subgroup.

Lee Binding

In 2001, he joined Contender Entertainment Group to oversee their range of science fiction DVDs, including Farscape, Andromeda and The Avengers UK releases.

Linnean Tercentenary Medal

The front of the medal features an illustration by Linnaeus of Andromeda (mythology) next to one of the plant he named Andromeda, from his 1732 expedition to Lapland and on the back, a spiral design made from illustrations taken from Systema Naturae.

M110

Messier 110 (M110), an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

M32

Messier 32, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

Mirath

Beta Andromedae, a red giant star in the constellation of Andromeda.

Nebula

The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble and others.

New Pudsey railway station

The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda.

Perseus and Andromeda

Perseus and Andromeda is a text adventure game released in 1983 by Digital Fantasia on the Mysterious Adventures label.

Pierre Puget

His statue of Milo of Croton (Louvre) had been completed in 1682, Perseus and Andromeda (Louvre) in 1684; and Alexander and Diogenes (bas-relief, Louvre) in 1685, but, in spite of the personal favour which he enjoyed, Puget, on coming to Paris in 1688 to push forward the execution of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, found court intrigues too much for him.

Route of Ages

When the Andromeda passed through the Route of Ages, she arrived on the planet Seefra (later revealed to be Tarn-Vedra), where captain Dylan Hunt finds out that he is the last of the Paradines, a highly evolved and human-like type of Vedran.

Sceptrum et Manus Iustitiae

It was formed from stars of what is today the constellations Lacerta and western Andromeda.

Silvio Spaventa

Raffaele Aurini, Spaventa Silvio, in Dizionario bibliografico della gente d'Abruzzo, Ars et Labor, Teramo 1958, now in Nuova Edizione, Andromeda editrice, Colledara 2002;

SkyWeek

The signature constellations of summer are setting in the west, while bright Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda, and Pegasus rise in the northeast.

Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection

As far as other ships go, a new model Earth battleship, "Super Andromeda", appears, as well as the Earth flagship, Blue Noah.

The Andromeda Breakthrough

Kidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman (John Hollis), John Fleming (Peter Halliday) along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay (Mary Morris) and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid (Susan Hampshire), are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country.

The Andromeda Nebula

De facto name — The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star.

The Last Olympian

In order to try to cut the head off of Kronos' approach by sea, Percy and Beckendorf the son of Hephaestus attempt to destroy his ship, the Princess Andromeda.

Two Guys from Andromeda

After a falling-out ended their working relationship, they reunited in April 2012 and, along with co-founder Chris Pope, formed Guys From Andromeda, LLC.

White Triangle

The Legion managed to stop the four Daxamites with the aid of Jan Arrah, the last surviving inhabitant of the planet Trom, while Andromeda herself defeated Roxxas, seemingly at the cost of her own life, though she would be discovered alive later.


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