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 August 19, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
An Ancient Archer Aims His Arrow At The Heart Of the Scorpion And At The Heart Of The Galaxy
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy is located just to the right of the teapots spout in the constellation Sagittarius.