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 January 30, 2006. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Moon Pays A Visit To A Red Planet And A Red Star

The Moon, Mars, Pleiades, and Aldebaran on January 5 about an hour after sunset, as seen from mid Northern latitudes.