I attended a Cafe Scientifique lecture in Waterstone's bookshop in Aberdeen tonight given by Professor Shaun Cole on the Big Bang and Dark Matter.  Prof Cole is an eminent academic in the field of the cosmos and other starry /galaxy stuff.  One amazing thing I learned was that Prof Cole, who won the 2014 Shaw prize for an outstanding contribution to astronomy, has never looked through an astronomical telescope!! 
Anyway I stayed overnight at a friends house and I couldn;t help but notice this bedside ornament casting an eye over things.