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 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...