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StarGazer
Each week most PBS stations air Star Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for the week of Monday, January 22, 2001.

The Ground Hog Day Moon Visits 2 Planets and A Venus Reminder

The 28th of January finds Venus at its closest to the crescent moon.

Venus’s clouds make it impossible to see surface features. This closeup look comes from probes which penetrated the Venusian atmosphere.

Groundhog Day brings the moon near the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn. The bow of Orion points towards the trio.



 


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