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 5th, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Venus and the Moon Make a Lovely Duo
And How to Find Three Planets Lined Up in a Row

The evening of July 13th will give northern hemisphere observers a treat -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn above the western horizon at sunset, accompanied by a slim crescent Moon.