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Meaning of andrómeda



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

andrómeda
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Light years is the name of a constellation that is 2.5 million years light-years from Earth. It is also the name of a spiral galaxy. It was the name of a girl in Greek mythology.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

The Greek aner andros, male, male and mede verb, care for, protect, reign over. Which protects and governs men. Daughter of the Ethiopian King Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Chained as a sacrifice to a sea monster by the presumption of his mother, he released it and espoused Perseus killing the monster as he had done before with Medusa. When he died, Athena transformed her into a next to that of Perseus and Cassiopeia constellation, his parents, in the northern part of the sky.

  










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