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 planets, and the distances between them all on ...

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Where does the Earth really fit in space? That question and the inaccurate approaches to illustrating that led a group of friends to the Nevada desert to build a scale model of the solar system. The ...

The universe, as Douglas Adams so memorably explained, is big. Really big. But so are the things inside it -- even objects like the Solar System, which on a galactic scale are absolutely minuscule. A ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that it was wrong. Not that it messed up the order of the planets, but that the scale was completely off. "Every single ...

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev., Sept. 17 (UPI) --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. Wylie Overstreet and Alex ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...

Typical illustrations and models show the relative size of the planets but depict their orbits as far too close together. To show what our solar system truly looks like, DIY enthusiasts Wylie ...

You probably know that our solar system is big. But do you have a grasp on just how big it really is? No. A filmmaker and his buddies went to a dried-up lakebed in Nevada to do just that. The vast ...

I’m at a loss for words. This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed, that it ...