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 25, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

How to Find The Last Of The Planets
Using The King Of The Planets

Before sunrise this week, northern hemisphere observers can try to identify these bright objects in the east and southeast:

Get a telescope trained on Jupiter and see if you can spot Neptune lurking close by!