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 2, 2003. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Two Inferior Planets Meet On The Summer Solstice, The First Day Of Summer

The two inferior planets, Mercury and Venus, get really close on June 21(Summer Solstice), less than a full moon's width in fact. This view shows the sky at 5:00 AM as seen from mid-northern latitudes.