Proportional Planets’ scale model of the solar system features die-cut vinyl images with adhesive backing of the eight major planets and the Moon. Sizes range from 27.4 inches ...

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 ...

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.

In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

A group of friends discovered there were no proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So, they decided to ...

One scale showing the orbits of the planets and another scale showing the size of the planets. Unfortunately, this way you don't get a good sense of how far apart these things are.

Owen S. Good is a longtime veteran of video games writing, well known for his coverage of sports and racing games. Scale representations of the Solar System exist in many places — public parks ...

Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh decided to drive out to the Nevada desert and create a to-scale model of the solar system, showing the true relative distance of each planet from one another and ...

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...

The Solar System’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions of years.The early Solar System was a much different place ...