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.