She wasn’t born a monster. She was made into one. The real story
of Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, and the star that remembers her.
Algol Star and Medusa: the Victim the Myth Turned Into a Monster Read More »
The complete myth of Perseus: Medusa, Andromeda, the prophecy fulfilled by accident, and the most spectacular deep-sky objects in the winter sky.
Perseus Constellation: Medusa, Andromeda, the Double Cluster and the Perseids Read More »
The princess who paid for her mother’s mistakes, the hero who negotiated her hand before rescuing her, and the nearest galaxy you can see tonight with your own eyes. Greek myth, medieval Arab astronomy, Vedic tradition, and the most fascinating deep-sky objects of the autumn sky.
Hercules killed his family, was sold as a slave dressed as a woman, and died from a poisoned love gift. This is the complete story: the twelve labors, Omphale, the death nobody tells you about, and M13, the cluster Carl Sagan sent a message to that is still traveling through space.
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The Pleiades aren’t just seven stars. They’re seven stories of love, betrayal and planets nobody told you about: Maia, Electra, Alcyone, Taygeta, Sterope, Celaeno and Merope. The most complete guide in English.
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Born of three gods, he chased seven eternal nymphs and fell for the only goddess who never loved anyone. This is the complete story of the Orion constellation: the myth the textbooks left out, Betelgeuse on the verge of exploding and M42 visible to the naked eye from anywhere in the world.
Pisces is the last constellation of the zodiac and one of the oldest in the sky. Its story does not start with the Greeks: centuries before, a Syrian goddess and her son already inhabited that corner of the sky. Aphrodite, Eros, Typhon, the Aztecs, and M74, the Ghost Galaxy, the most elusive object in the entire Messier catalog.
Pisces Constellation: The Night Aphrodite and Eros Jumped into the River to Survive Read More »
Zeus saw the most beautiful human in the world and decided he had to have him. Ganymede, Enki, the Babylonian flood that inspired Genesis, the Age of Aquarius, and the nebula that looks like a giant eye staring at you from the cosmos. All in one article.
A Sumerian god placed his wisest creature there. A Greek satyr got frozen in his worst moment. And in the Andes, a toad was quietly announcing the rains from that same corner of the sky. Capricorn has 4,000 years of history and a globular cluster devouring itself.
Capricorn Constellation: The Greek God Who Panicked and Became Half Goat, Half Fish Read More »
The Taurus constellation is one of the oldest in the sky. It was documented by the Babylonians more than 4,000 years ago, and ever since, it has been telling the same story: a bull that is not what it appears to be. Greek mythology, the Aztec apocalypse of the Pleiades, and the nebula born from
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