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 15, 2008. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
The So-Called "Christmas Star" Returns
Accompanied By A Companion!
Northern hemisphere observers can look to the west during the evenings of the week surrounding December 25th to see Venus playing the part of a bright 'Christmas Star'.

(Yes, the story says that the star appeared in the east on Christmas morning -- but you'll have to wait until Christmas of 2010 to see Venus do that!)
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Click here for an archive of the past shows.
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