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 April 26, 2004. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Venus Has Its Best Year Since 1882! And Reaches Its Greatest Brilliancy This Sunday May 2nd!

Venus reaches greatest brilliancy. This view shows the sky on May 2nd one hour after sunset, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.