Starry Night This Week
Each week most PBS stations air "Jack
Horkheimer: Star Gazer", the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The Starry Night images on this page illustrate
the show for the week of Monday, December 3, 2001. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Only Known Asteroid Shower Visits Earth Next Week! and How To Watch It
Saturn and Jupiter are the brightest points of light in the evening sky in early December.
Use Jupiter as a pointer to the Geminids meteor shower on the night of December 13. The Geminid shower is the only meteor shower caused by asteroid debris, rather than comet debris.