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 .

Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh decided to drive out to the Nevada desert and create a to-scale model of the solar system, showing the true relative distance of each planet from one another and ...

And Sweden built the largest scale model of the solar system ever, using the Stockholm Globe Arena to represent the sun, and lining up the planets at a 20 million to one scale. At this distance ...

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Of course other models of the Solar System -- or bits of it -- do exist to scale. On the web there are several, perhaps most notably this illustration which represents the distances between the ...

By the time we hit Jupiter, the solar system stretches to about 778.5 million kilometers, or in terms of this model's scale, just under a kilometer. This is where the space between planets gets ...

To-scale model solar system in Lethbridge The Lethbridge Astronomy Society has created a new, to-scale model of the solar system. Sean Marks has details.

Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...

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 ...

Dallas Campbell shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Suitable for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4/GCSE, Third Level, National 4, National 5 and Higher ...

Solar System Scale Model We'll talk about a new scale model of the solar system that stretches 40 miles, from the sun at Presque Isle out to Pluto near Houlton, Maine. Guest: ...

Vast Distances in the Outer Solar System: The pixel distances between these gas giants are even more astounding; on our scale model, the distance between Mars and Jupiter is approximately 127,800 ...