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Songs Celebrating the Nighttime Sky on the Acoustic Highway

NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI)
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the farthest star ever seen. The magnified galaxy looks like a stretched out red line with three dots. The single star is the middle one.

This week's Acoustic Highway is out of this world! We'll hear songs all about the stars and planets from Tim Harrison, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Flatlanders and plenty of others. Local and regional artists Skip Friel, Matt Thomas, Ron Fetner, Doug Alan Wilcox, Ben Eppard, Robbin Thompson, and Mustards Retreat also are on the program. There's even a track from Bono teaming with the Irish Band The Coors. Grab a spot outside and do some star gazing while listening to The Highway. Sunday night at 9 on WHRV.

Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.