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 June 1, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
How To Find The Two Largest Planets Before sunrise this week, northern hemisphere observers can spot Jupiter and the Moon close together in the southern sky:
Or, wait until the end of the month and look west after sunset to see the Moon and Saturn:
Using The Moon As A Finder