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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 29, 2001.
The Month Of The Incredible UFO Planet!
That bright light you see in the southwest just after sunset isn’t a UFO, its Venus, our nearest neighbour.
At the beginning of January, Venus is half full.
Two months later, it has become a slender crescent.
Click here to see a QuickTime movie how Venus changes its shape and size during its phases.
