“My mother, when I was probably three years old, used to take me out into the yard, point up at the sky, and terrify me with the constellations,” says Dr. Korpela. “She didn’t understand that I was too young to understand metaphors. She would actually point up at the sky and say, ‘There’s Cassiopeia – she’s a queen sitting in her chair,’ and it terrified me to think that there were people up in the sky looking down at me, sitting in their chairs!”