“At the scale of the new model, to get to Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our solar system, you’d have to travel from Boulder to the Panama Canal.” Chancellor Philip DiStefano and other campus ...

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 ...

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 ...

To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.

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.

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 ...

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

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.