Brood 14 Cicadas Emerge And New Series Explores State’s Clear Night Skies, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, cicadas are emerging from the ground after completing a 17-year nap. Brood 14 can be found in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. The Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom’s Justin Hicks reports, while the crunchy critters are annoying to some, they have profound meaning to others.

And WVPB is bringing you a new radio and television feature called Almost Heavens. In it, Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above the mountains – including how to find the Orion Nebula with nothing more than your naked eye. These short stargazing features are also available to watch on West Virginia Public Broadcasting or to stream on PBS Passport.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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