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 planets, and the distances between them all on ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar ... system actually looks like. Heading out to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert (best known as where Burning Man takes place), the crew built a ...

Did you ever build one of those scale models of the solar system as a kid? You know, where you walk around a football field setting down balls of different sizes, attempting to gain some ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...

Clarke Institute for Space Science Education. As a 1 to 10-billion scale model of the solar system, all dimensions depicted – including the diameters of the Sun, planets and moons, and the ...

The vast expanse of the Black Rock Desert gave the crew the space needed to construct a to-scale model of the solar system. In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble.

seeing this has to change a man. That quote is what inspired writer Wylie Overstreet and director Alex Gorosh to build a model of our solar system, to exact scale, in the middle of the Black Rock ...

Liam Gillespie, a senior at Masconomet Regional High School and Boy Scout in Troop 81 Topsfield, recently completed a scale model of our solar system along three miles of the Topsfield Linear ...

Voyage, a $50,000 scale model walkway through the solar system, is coming to Albany Street in Broken Arrow. A group of retired and current Broken Arrow educators and community leaders have come ...

One way is to show the model of the solar system in one web page - as shown here. Another way is to build a scale model in the real world. Real world solar system models can be found in lots of ...

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. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor ...