Cassiopeia
the W in the northern sky
Today this word meansThe W-shaped constellation of the northern sky, used as a pointer to the North Star.
From the queen who boasted of her beauty and was punished — bound to a chair, wheeling through the sky forever.
Circling the celestial pole, it never sets, and with the seasons the W flips into an M — which is where the story of her hanging upside down comes from.
Her husband Cepheus, daughter Andromeda, son-in-law Perseus, and the sea monster Cetus are all neighbors. It is the only case of an entire family lifted into the sky.