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 7, 2008. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Don't Miss the Mars & Gemini Twins Cosmic Triangle

Late in the evenings from midnorthern latitudes, see the familiar shape of Orion and his dogs setting in the west, accompanied by the red planet Mars, and the twins Castor & Pollux.