Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity : Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string. Assign each student or group a planet to ...

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 ...

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.

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye. This ...

(If we were making a scale model of the solar system, it would not be the same size of the peppercorn sun, but it would be practically invisible to the naked eye: 0.0002 inch, or 0.005 millimeter ...

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. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

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 ...

The Falkland Islands Solar System Model, created by Dutch-born, but long-time Stanley resident, Rob Yssel, uses a scale of 1:1,000,000,000. This means that Pluto, ...