Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea as opposed to the traditional depiction of the Gorgons as grotesque and evil. The album artwork designed by Noble shows Medusa with a feminine build, blue-grey skin and dark grey hair.hough the plot generally follows that of the Gorgons in ancient Greek mythology, some aspects, such as the deep emotional connection between the sisters, were conceived by Noble. The prologue is told primarily in third person, but features sections from the perspective of Stheno, the oldest of the three Gorgons. Immortal sisters Stheno and Euryale have lived alone for a thousand years in the sea caves below Mount Olympus before
Medusa Nebula Medusa Nebula The Medusa Nebula is a large planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini on the Canis Minor border. It is also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 by UCLA astronomer George O. Abell, who classified it as an old planetary nebula. The braided serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggests the serpent hair of Medusa found in ancient Greek mythology. Until the early 1970s, the Medusa was thought to be a supernova remnant. With the computation of expansion velocities and the thermal character of the radio emission, Soviet astronomers in 1971 concluded