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 ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert.

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale.

The solar system is incredibly vast, and it is almost impossible to grasp the enormous distances between the planets. To give an idea of the sizes involved, imagine there is a scale model of the ...

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 ...

In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

Knowing their instability trigger correctly reproduces the current picture of our solar system, they could test whether their model works better starting with four or five gas giants.

In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).