The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

Burden's Scale Model of the Solar System begins in Gagosian's Booth #A09 at the Seattle Art Fair, where a model of the sun (13 inches in diameter) will hang from the ceiling.

A Stunning Scale Model of Our Solar System, Drawn in the Desert Nov 30, 2015 | 831 videos ...

Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...

Of course other models of the Solar System -- or bits of it -- do exist to scale. On the web there are several, perhaps most notably this illustration which represents the distances between the ...

In "To Scale: The Solar System" filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, along with a few of their friends, build a size-accurate model of our cosmic backyard in Nevada's Black Rock Desert ...