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A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Use planetary orbits and scale ratios to draw scale solar system orbits while exploring gravitational forces.

These guys put Earth in its place. Space enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh say they built the first-ever to-scale model of the solar system — on a 7-mile stretch of dry Nevada lakebed ...

An astronomer has posted an awesome animation that has put into perspective the true scale of planets within our solar system.

Another way is to build a scale model in the real world. Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model.

In "To Scale: The Solar System" filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, along with a few of their friends, build a size-accurate model of our cosmic backyard in Nevada's Black Rock Desert ...

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 ...

Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...

Explore the true scale of the Solar System in this video, which illustrates the relative sizes of the planets and their ...

There's a lot of space in space. That's the point hammered in by this huge to-scale map of the solar system, If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel, created by the interactive designer Josh Worth.