The premise is simple: to build a solar system model to scale. The result, done on an empty 7-mile stretch on a dry lakebed in Nevada, is just awesome. Wylie Overstreet writes: ...

Two filmmakers built what might be the first-ever scale model of the Solar System in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, and it spanned seven miles.

Our solar system is much more expansive than we might assume based on diagrams that are meant primarily to convey information and a conceptual view.

A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system.

NASA's New Horizons mission has sparked a renewed interest in all things space. It also likely inspired a couple of filmmakers to dispel a common myth and build a scale model of our solar system ...

In just 36 hours, two filmmakers built the solar system to scale in the Nevada desert.

So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

The model features the sun in the middle, surrounded by the eight planets in our Solar System (sorry, Pluto, we still love you). What is interesting about this build is that it is working and it ...

Windsor Retiree, 80, builds glowing solar system model in Ont. field Models resemble planets seen with the naked eye, or through telescope at night ...

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...