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 August 31, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Celebrate Labor Day The Cosmic Way
With A Giant Triangle Of Stars Overhead

The Summer Triangle is still high overhead for northern hemisphere observers in early September. Look for the Milky Way stretching from the lower right corner up towards the centre of this field.