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 November 29, 2004. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Venus Has A Super Close Meeting With Mars And The Moon Plays 'Hide The Biggest Planet'

A close encounter of Venus and Mars, while the Moon prepares to hide Jupiter. This view is about an hour before sunrise on December 6, as seen from mid northern latitudes.

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