May is here and with it come lots of opportunities to Do Some Science! In addition to being Clean Air Month and National Egg Month, May is also home to Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, the a rare blue moon, and Manhattanhenge. Take a look at what May brings for the science lover in you.
May 2: Birthday of Elijah McCoy; Canadian-born African-American inventor and engineer
May 3: Space Day
May 4: Star Wars Day
May 6-7: Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
May 6-12: Astronomy Week
May 10: Saturn makes its closest approach to Earth (rings and moons visible with a telescope)
May 10: On this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin first tested his lightning rod.
May 11: Birthday of Richard Feynman; American theoretical physicist
May 11: National Astronomy Day
May 11: International Migratory Bird Day
May 14-17: National Science Teachers Association STEM Forum (New Orleans, LA)
May 17: National Endangered Species Day
May 18: Full Flower Moon (also known as Full Corn Planting Moon and Milk Moon). This is also a rare seasonal blue moon.
May 18: International Museum Day
May 18: Kids to Parks Day
May 19: World Plant a Vegetable Garden Day
May 22: On this day in 1906, the Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) received a patent for a “Flying Machine” with a motor
May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity
May 24: Birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit; physicist and inventor of the modern thermometer.
May 24: 209P/LINEAR Meteor Shower (possibly a new meteor shower)
May 26: Sally Ride Day (birthday of Sally Ride; the first American woman in space)
May 29: Learn About Composting Day
May 29-30: Manhattanhenge
May 30-June 4:World Science Festival
