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 18, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Jupiter Is At Its Closest To Earth And Farthest From The Sun This Month!

Jupiter and the Moon on April 21, about an hour after sunset, as seen from mid Northern latitudes.