In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).

Learn how to make a scale model of the Sun and the Earth with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Scale model of Solar System shows Earth's place in the universe like never before. Only 24 people in history have seen the full circle of the Earth for themselves. Alice Harrold.

At this scale, the model is more than 11 kilometers wide. Their journey ended with these magical night-time time lapses of the glowing planets. "We are on a marble floating in the middle of ...

Determine the scale of your system by determining the distance between the two pins or nails. Explain how you did this in words or with math. (The average distance between Earth and the Moon is ...

Building the entire world in Minecraft on a 1:1 scale seems like it should be possible.It's not, though: Minecraft has limitations, most importantly its 256 block height limitation, which won't ...

Take a glass hemisphere, fill with sulfuric acid, and rotate inside the world’s most powerful magnetic field. The result: a scale model of the dynamo that generates Earth’s magnetic field.

His scale model of the Earth has a sweeping grandeur that may just push the boundaries of Minecraft exploration further than its creators ever intended it to go. Furthermore, ...

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.