Astronomy

Naming Apollo: Why NASA chooses Greek gods as names

When NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on May 13 that the space agency’s efforts to return to the Moon would be named the Artemis program, it seemed an obvious choice. The goddess Artemis ...
Artnet

In Pictures: See Jeff Koons’s Luxurious Art Offerings to Apollo, God of the Sun, on the Greek Island of Hydra

Apollo is the god of the sun. He also presides over music, dance, poetry, and all things arty. How perfect, then, that the image of Apollo is the centerpiece of artist Jeff Koons’s multisensory ...