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Ann wrote:I'm trying to make it to a hundred posts and earn my green ears as a science officer, so... here is a bad hair day for Medusa!

Ann

APOD Robot wrote: The Medusa Nebula

Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa wrote:
In Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she and the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon lay together in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. While Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, god of the sea, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus as a gift. With help from Athena and Hermes who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest.

The hero slew Medusa by looking at her harmless reflection in a mirror
instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone:

http://bf-astro.com/outhouse.htm wrote:
Bob Franke's Old (Seattle) Observatory (a.k.a. Outhaus-West)

When the hero sEVERED Medusa's head from her neck, two offspring sprang forth:
the winged horse Pegasus and the golden giant Chrysaor.

In Odyssey xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa:

• "Lest for my daring Persephone the dread,
  From Hades should send up an awful monster's grisly head."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonzola_%28cheese%29 wrote:
<<Gorgonzola is a veined Italian blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's and/or goat's milk. It can be buttery or firm, crumbly and quite salty, with a 'bite' from its blue veining. It has been made since the early Middle Ages, but became marbled with greenish-blue mold only in the eleventh century. Gorgonzola is made in the regions of Piedmont and Lombardy from whole cow's milk, to which is added lactic acid bacteria, along with spores of the mold Penicillium glaucum.>>

biddie67 wrote:The nebula reminds me of those fabulous back-lit "dancing waters" displays that you can see around in tourist areas.

DavidLeodis wrote:I also learnt something! Through the "radiation" link I found out that microwaves (as in a microwave oven) are lower frequency than visible light waves.

As microwaves cook food very fast I would have guessed they were higher frequency and I would also have guessed that higher frequency meant more powerful.