Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD in planetary science from the University of Arizona. He entered the Jesuits in 1989. He has served at the Vatican Observatory since 1993, and in 2015 Pope Francis appointed him director. He is the author of God's Mechanics and co-author of Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? and Turn Left at Orion.