Gaia

An exuberant yet haunting road movie, "Stray Bodies" uses the trope of travel to explore the boundaries that religion and politics place on women, especially when it comes to their bodies.

Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, according to a study published on Tuesday.

"In the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss. But then Gaia, the Earth, came into being… From the Abyss were born Erebos and dark Night. And Night, pregnant after sweet intercourse with Erebos, gave birth to Aether and Day…" Placed before Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," Hesiod's "Theogony" begins with Αbyss, Erebos and Chaos. At the end, Zeus introduces Peace, Law and Justice.

Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (pcai.gr) presents "Oh, tranquility! Penetrating the very rock, A cicada's voice," a cultural program at the former Pikionis Pavilion, now Π, named after the haiku by Matsuo Basho.

The Gaia space probe on Monday unveiled its latest discoveries in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which sweep across the fiery giants like vast tsunamis.

Modern

Modern history traces the origin of Mother’s Day to the UK and the United States in the late 19th century, however the roots of the Spring festival celebrated on the second Sunday in May stem back to antiquity. Ancient Greeks held an annual spring festival to honor Rhea, the Titan daughter of Gaia, the earth goddess and sky god Uranus.