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Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert.

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 ...

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 ...

These mini solar system models from AstroReality pair with an augmented-reality app so users can virtually explore all eight planets of the solar system (and Pluto). (Image credit: Space.com) ...

Scale Model of the Solar System Normally, what textbooks do is to show two separate scales. One scale showing the orbits of the planets and another scale showing the size of the planets.

For about 35 years, the Colorado Scale Model Solar System has delighted campus visitors by shrinking Earth's cosmic neighborhood down to a short walk. Now the exhibit is getting a new update and an ...

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).

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.

The Sun-centered model of the solar system was first proposed more than a thousand years before Copernicus. What does our Solar System really look like?

A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials — the precursors of space rocks and ultimately planets — both formed at the same time.