This Week In Science News

World Maker Faire is coming to the NY Hall of Science on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27. World Maker Faire is a family fun festival to MAKE, create, learn, invent, craft, recycle, build, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology.

On Sunday, September 27th not only will the moon be at its closest point point to Earth in its orbit, it will also pass completely into Earth's shadow, turning the lunar body into a red-tinted "blood moon". According to NASA, "All of South America and most of North and Central America will see the entire eclipse...You won’t need special equipment to see it. Just go outside and look up!"

The long-awaited grand opening of the Staten Island Museum took place recently. Inaugural exhibitions cover fine art, natural history and science. On the museum's first floor is a natural science exhibit looking at biodiversity and animals that have gone extinct on Staten Island.

This week, NASA released the latest pictures of Pluto and they are simply amazing! "Pluto is showing us a diversity of land forms and complexity of process that rival anything we've seen in the solar system," New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern stated. "If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that's what is actually there." 

Using Google Street View, a coder created a map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s. The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.