So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel.

When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails to do so accurately and to scale. That’s why a group of friends have worked ...

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one." To build a scale model with an Earth the size of a marble, the group of friends needed 7 miles of open space.

Filmmakers came up with a seven-mile long scale model of the Solar System in the Nevada desert and filmed their work in a documentary titled "To Scale: The Solar System." ...

Two filmmakers built what might be the first-ever scale model of the Solar System in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, and it spanned seven miles.

To do this the two went out to a dry lake in Nevada and created a scale model of the solar system with a single astronomical unit equaling 176 meters. An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance ...

In just 36 hours, two filmmakers built the solar system to scale in the Nevada desert.

Students in Ms. DeFalco’s and Mr. Rodriguez’s sixth grade Earth Science classes at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark took advantage of the beautiful fall weather and went outside to ...

In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...