The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real objects and distances are 10 billion ...

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 ...

Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity : Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string. Assign each student or group a planet to ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

As Pluto is finally added to the University of Arizona's scale model solar system, a new study suggests how the dwarf planet's cold heart was originally broken.

The Arizona Scale Model Solar System is a collection of 10 informational signs stretching from the Kuiper Space Sciences Building on the UA Mall to Main Gate at ... distance of almost 2.8 billion ...

The distance of the Oort Cloud to the interior of the Solar System. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance.

New instruments are currently being developed that will enable scientists to detect life on planets outside the solar system within the next 25 years, one scientist believes.

This detailed model offers a time-evolving view of how Alpha Centauri’s material could be traveling through space, potentially on a path that will bring it into contact with our solar system.

Our understanding of the solar system is a work in progress. Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet was just one of many revisions—in recent decades astronomers have cataloged new dwarfs, like far ...