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 July 27, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

How To Find Two Wonders Of Summer's Skies:
The Heart Of The Scorpion And The Heart of Our Galaxy

Northern hemisphere observers can look south after dark for the Teapot of Sagittarius and the J of Scorpius. Is that an arrow pointed at the heart of our galaxy, or a pouring of hot tea? You decide...