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 February 22nd, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

How To Find The Gemini Twins
And Their Sensational Siblings

Northern hemisphere observers can look south after dark in early March to find Gemini's position relative to Orion. Pollux is the brighter of the 'twin' stars, but Castor is actually a system of six stars -- three pairs of stars orbiting each other.