The Lethbridge Astronomy Society, along with multiple local partners, have come together to create a new, to-scale model of the solar system. Skip to main content. Sections.

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.

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.

Let me use units common in solar-system astronomy, the Astronomical Unit (or AU). ... One way is to show the model of the solar system in one web page - as shown here.

The two filmmakers — Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh — drove out to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to recreate an accurate scale model of the solar system.

Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...

And Sweden built the largest scale model of the solar system ever, using the Stockholm Globe Arena to represent the sun, and lining up the planets at a 20 million to one scale. At this distance ...

In Worth's scale model it's only one pixel wide: Josh Worth With this kind of scale, you'd need 886 computer screens lined up side-by-side to see the whole map of the Solar System at once.

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.