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 August 22, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Two Brightest Planets Have A Super Close Meeting And Mars Doubles In Brightness!

Venus and Jupiter in conjunction on September 1, about 45 minutes after sunset, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.