For about 35 years, the Colorado Scale Model Solar System has delighted campus visitors by shrinking Earth's cosmic neighborhood down to a short walk. Now the exhibit is getting a new update and an ...

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 ...

Not to scale. By a long shot. (Credit: NASA) 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.

The two filmmakers — Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh — drove out to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to recreate an accurate scale model of the solar system. Beginning with the sun, which was ...

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

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. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is ...

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Lethbridge will soon feature Canada's largest scale model of the solar system. The Lethbridge Astronomy Society came up with the idea, and city council approved the project this week.

So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

The filmmaking duo made the model because "it’s never been done before, and we felt like it," Mr Overstreet said. They hope that the model will give "a true illustration of our place in the ...