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, January 14, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Moon Has Two Near Misses With Two Planets!

Saturn and the bright star Aldebaran lie just to the left of the moon on January 23.

Three nights later, the moon has moved beside Jupiter.