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 October 21, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Seven Sisters And Halloween And The End Of The World

The Pleiades is the most famous of all open star clusters, containing around 500 members set against a black velvet sky. This young first magnitude open cluster is easily visible to the unaided eye and resembles a smaller version of the Big Dipper. This view shows the sky at 9:00 PM local time as seen from mid-northern latitudes.