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, December 10, 2001. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Three Exquisite Star Clusters and How To Find Them

Three well-known star clusters surround the constellation Perseus. To the right is the bright star cluster known as the Pleiades, while to the left is the fainter Perseus Double Star Cluster.

Close-ups of the Pleiades (on the left) and the Perseus Double Cluster.

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.