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.