Some hunting dogs may be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field and use it as a compass, scientists are now reporting. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dogs-sense-earth-magnetic-field.html
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Use Big Dipper to locate Hunting Dogs
The ancient stargazers saw the Hunting Dogs – aka Canes Venatici – as nipping at the heels of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/use-the-big-dipper-to-locate-the-hunting-dogs…
Procyon is the Little Dog Star
The Dog Star, Sirius, is easy to spot because it’s the sky’s brightest star. Procyon – the other Dog Star – is near its brighter brother on the sky’s dome. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/procyon-harbringer-of-the-dog-star…
New names for 112 exoplanets and their stars
Hundreds of thousands of people from 112 countries helped select names for distant exoplanets and their stars. So, for example, the exoplanet formerly known as HAT-P-36b – about 1,000 light-years away – now also carries the name Bran, from an Irish legend. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-exoplanet-names-dec2019…