Jack Horkheimer, who was best known for his role as the host of the PBS program Star Gazer has died.
Horkheimer died on Friday of respitory failure following a long battle with illness, according to officials at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium.
He was 72 years old and had spent the last 35 years of his life as director of the planetarium there. Star Gazer was a 5-minute program that charted what could be seen in the sky on any given evening.
He had hosted the show since 1976, always closing with the trademark catch-phrase, “Keep looking up.”
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