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 February 25, 2008. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Orion The Hunter's Wonderful "Fuzzy" Star

Look south and see if you can spot the great Orion Nebula, the fuzzy "star" in the middle of Orion's sword.