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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, September 10, 2001.

How To Find The 'False Dawn' Of Omar Khayyam... Next Week

If you look in the East just before dawn in September, you may see a faint glowing region to the left of the Milky Way. This is known as the zodiacal light.

The zodiacal light is caused by the reflection of sunlight off particles of dust which are in the plane of the Earth's orbit. This image shows these particles much larger than they really are.



 


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