How to Build a Seven-Mile-Wide Scale Model of the Solar System It takes three-and-a-half miles to get from the Sun to Pluto. Danny Lewis. September 21, 2015. Get our newsletter!

The result is a 7-minute-long time-lapse video, "To Scale: The Solar System," that is beautiful to watch and gives a great sense of just how huge our solar system really is.

Neptune, the solar system's most far flung planet, orbits the sun from about 4.498 billion kilometers away. At this scale, the model is more than 11 kilometers wide.

We spent the time to research and plan our own installation, and it'll help you make the right decisions when you build out your own system.

The premise is simple: to build a solar system model to scale. The result, done on an empty 7-mile stretch on a dry lakebed in Nevada, is just awesome. Wylie Overstreet writes: ...

Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? … ...

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.

Overstreet and Gorosh partnered up to build and film what might be the first-ever to-scale model of the Solar System. They selected the site, a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert, and embarked on ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...