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.