What then, was the real story behind this transformation? Was Medusa always as hideous and deathly as the legends portrayed her to be? Well, it’s not uncommon to read of people whose stories have been ...

ESO’s wonderfully named Very Large Telescope has done it again, capturing some of the most detailed images ever taken of the beautiful Medusa Nebula. Astronomers used the Chile-housed telescope to ...

The nebula was called Medusa because poisonous snakes hung from her grotesque head, instead of hair. Those who named the nebula thought – though I’m not sure why – that the glimmering filaments of the ...

Early depictions of the gorgon Medusa-a monster from Greek mythology-show an ugly, winged woman with serpents entwined in her hair, bulging eyes, a wide grin, a protruding tongue, and boar tusks, ...

The representation of females in Greek mythology, including Medusa, has often showed men's fear of female power and their ...