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Someone must have left the door open, because the skies are full of dogs. You can see the dogs of Orion and the hunting dogs of the shepherd Bootes in pursuit of the Great Bear. There is also the Running Dog Nebula, and the memory of poor Laika, the first cosmonaut, who perished in space.

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The dog Laika was the first Earthling to go into orbit. It wasn't revealed at the time that she died early on in the mission.

In 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die:
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Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.


Laika has a little memorial - a model dog standing atop a rocket near a military research facility in Moscow.

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Strelka was another canine cosmonaut, and fared better than Laika. She returned safely to Earth and in due course became a mother. One of her puppies - named Pushinska (Fluffy) - was given as a gift to the US President John F. Kennedy. Pushinska and the Kennedy's Welsh terrier Charlie had a warmer relationship than the USA and the USSR. In due course Pushinska had a litter of pups - or pupniks, as the President called them.

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Here's a lovely image of the night sky taken from La Palma in the Canary Islands. You'll recognize Orion the Hunter on the right. Sirius is at the bottom left of the photo, the brightest star in the picture, and also in our night sky. It's the [url=https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art303105.asp] alpha star of Canis Major (the Greater Dog). But it's not the only dog, because above and to the left is the bright star Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor (the Lesser Dog). In addition, the Canary Islands are not actually noted for canaries, but for dogs. The name comes from the Latin name Canariae Insulae, meaning "Islands of the Dogs".

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Through a telescope the nebula Sharpless 2-190 in Cassiopeia resembles a running dog (to some people). Artist Samuel Freedman has made a painting of the Running Dog Nebula.


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