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 May 31, 2004. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Venus Crosses the Sun! A Rare Cosmic Spectacle No Living Human Has Ever Seen

A visualization of the transit from New York on June 8th; only the final moments are visible.