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 April 25, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

An Update On One Of The Most Beloved Star Patterns In The Heavens: The Big Dipper

The Big Dipper (Ursa Major) and the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), about an hour after sunset during the first half of May, as seen from mid Northern latitudes.

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.