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.

To do this the two went out to a dry lake in Nevada and created a scale model of the solar system with a single astronomical unit equaling 176 meters. An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance ...

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 solar system model captures these distances with educational signs rather than small balls of clay. After the Challenger disaster of 1986, it also became a memorial for alumnus Ellison Onizuka and ...

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 ...