The Metro-Atlanta Scale Model Solar System project, based at Agnes Scott College's Bradley Observatory, is preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The educational tool, ...

To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.

Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? … ...

This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed, that it will make me dream of ...

As a 1 to 10-billion scale model of the solar system, all dimensions depicted – including the diameters of the Sun, planets and moons, and the distances between worlds – are one 10-billionth ...

By clicking ‘View in your space’ from the 3D model window, you can access a new Augmented Reality feature that lets you project entire planets into your real world environment through the ...

The solar system model is expected to boost traffic along the trail while giving Cumberland a reputation for thinking big. At the scale of the Cumberland model, Earth will be about 492 feet from ...

What’s next? The project is the first of its kind to go online as part of the Clean Power Alliance’s portfolio — and there are 12 similar projects in the pipeline, Bardacke said.