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 June 17, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
What The Stars Look Like On The First Nights Of Summer
The 2 brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, just above the horizon with the bright star of Leo, Regulus, in the west.
The three bright stars that form the Summer Triangle asterism. A familiar sight for summer stargazers.