Proportional Planets’ scale model of the solar system features die-cut vinyl images with adhesive backing of the eight major planets and the Moon. Sizes range from 27.4 inches (69.6cm) for ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...

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 ...

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 .

As Pluto is finally added to the University of Arizona's scale model solar system, ... The new paper focuses on the Sputnik Planitia, a teardrop-shaped basin that forms the heart’s left lobe.

(If we were making a scale model of the solar system, it would not be the same size of the peppercorn sun, but it would be practically invisible to the naked eye: 0.0002 inch, or 0.005 millimeter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In "To Scale: The Solar System" filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, along with a few of their friends, build a size-accurate model of our cosmic backyard in Nevada's Black Rock Desert ...

A group of friends has created a stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system on a dry lakebed in Nevada. “The only way to see a scale model of the solar system was to build one,” explained ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...