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 2nd, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
How To Find Two Wonders Of Summer's Skies: Northern hemisphere observers can look south any night in August to see the asterism of the Teapot and the constellation of Scorpius. The Teapot's spout seems ready to pour right into the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The Heart Of The Scorpion And The Heart of Our Galaxy