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 12th, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

My Favourite and Almost Everyone's Favourite Summer Constellation

Northern hemisphere observers can look south late in the evenings to see Scorpius, its bright tead heart Antares, and its severed claws Zuben Elgenubi and Zuben Eschamali (which are now part of Libra).