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A team of LA filmmakers has created the world's first scale model of the solar system in the Black Rock desert. With the Earth the size of a marble, the model stretches out for seven miles on a ...

Gravity, inertia, and centripetal force keep our solar system in motion. Explore with a series of kid-friendly gravity and force experiments.

While the free incarnation gives you access to a significant chunk of visuals and factoids, you can cough up $2.99 for the full version to view a 3D model of the solar system in motion, more ...

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 ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

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.

In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system's planets would appear in the sky as they orbit ...

Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger.