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 May 4, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
How to Find The Closest Star To Earth Other For low-latitude viewers in the northern hemisphere, the Southern Cross and Centaurus will skim the southern horizon a couple of hours after sunset in mid-May.
The bright star just to the left of the cross is Beta Centauri, and to the left of that is Alpha Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.
Than Our Sun And The Fabled Southern Cross