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 8, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Two Mairzy Doats and Dozey Doats And Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius Stars Of The Cosmos

Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali. The two brightest stars in Libra. In Arabic, Zubenelgenubi means "the southern claw" and Zubeneschamali means "the northern claw" and over 2,000 years ago they were the claws of Scorpius.

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