Maffei 2

2, two galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way Galaxy but unobserved until the late 1960s, when the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei detected them by their infrared radiation. Later studies established that the objects are galaxies. Lying near the border between the constellations Perseus and…

II. In Greek mythology, Cassiopeia was the queen of Ethiopia whose daughter Andromeda was saved by the hero Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea monster.