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 July 8, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Two Mairzy Doats and Dozey Doats And Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius Stars Of The Cosmos
Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali. The two brightest stars in Libra. In Arabic, Zubenelgenubi means "the southern claw" and Zubeneschamali means "the northern claw" and over 2,000 years ago they were the claws of Scorpius.