It is difficult to imagine the difference in size between the Sun and Earth, or the distance between them. This activity will help you to visualise it. If you create this model, the Earth and Sun ...

Often imagined as the crown jewel of future megastructures, a Dyson swarm—an orbiting fleet of solar collectors around the Sun—has long been considered a potential key to unlocking interstellar-scale ...

the Earth and five other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). The planets revolve around the Sun in real time and the distance between the planets is at scale. The model fills the ...

You can build a model of the Great Pyramid, but first you need to scale it down. To do this, you will need to make the pyramid 3,000 times smaller than it really is! To achieve that, every 30 ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches ... to the unimaginably big, the scale of the universe is mind-boggling.