A group of friends discovered there were no proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So, they decided to ...

Scale model of solar system to be unveiledThe John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14.

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

First to-scale Solar System model built in seven miles of desert All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors.

Scale Model Solar System Scale Model Solar System Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the ...

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.

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that it was wrong. Not that it messed up the order of the planets, but that the scale was completely off. "Every single ...

Did you ever build one of those scale models of the solar system as a kid? You know, where you walk around a football field setting down balls of different sizes, attempting to gain some ...

Another way is to build a scale model in the real world. Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model.

A marker outside Creekwood Elementary School in Broken Arrow denotes where the asteroid belt would be in a 1-to-10 billion scale model of the solar system. Organizers and municipal leaders ...