A to-scale, 1-mile-long model of the solar system that is 4.5 billion times smaller than the actual system lines the West Woodruff Avenue sidewalk.

A solar system model is the most effective way to accurately plot the relation of all the celestial objects on a much smaller scale.

You can walk the length of our vast solar system at a new, permanent exhibit stretching more than half a mile across the University of Arizona campus.

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 ...

A 3D Augmented Reality model of Saturn (Credit: Google, NASA) The new partnership has also seen the ‘Our Solar System’ project added to Google Arts & Culture.

Launched in 2000, the solar system project began with students and community members building scaled models of the planets at a scale of 93 million to 1—and over the years, the project has grown ...

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide.

Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...

Using a dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, the duo built their solar system model complete with planetary orbits. The project really puts into perspective just how tiny our home ...

The system’s four-hour lithium-ion battery array will store excess energy for use during peak demand. All 4,250 solar panels will be American made.