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 September 21th, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Mystery of the Wandering Stars If you were a shepherd in some ancient Mediterranean country, you probably would have had lots of time to look at the stars in the early mornings. What is that bright thing that makes a curving path around the sky over the course of a few months? Is it really the goddess of love flying around up there, or is it something else..?