The result is a 7-minute-long time-lapse video, "To Scale: The Solar System," that is beautiful to watch and gives a great sense of just how huge our solar system really is.

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Their first project, To Scale: The Solar System, spanned seven miles in a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert in 2015. ... Time, Overstreet and Gorosh decided to build a scale model of time.

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.

But if you bother to build one, you'll get even better data supporting the heliocentric model of the solar system. More Great WIRED Stories Elon Musk has a plan to save LA Dodger fans from traffic ...

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 ...

The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the nebula to collapse in on itself, forming a dense, hot ...