Check out this visualization by David Paliwoda that gives us a sense of the astronomical distance to our planetary neighbor Mars. Note: Since yesterday, the graphic was changed from the original, which said "If the Earth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/04/How-Far-is-Mars/It's like looking into a telescope or a snowglobe.... ...lollipops that look like all eight planets in our solar system .(Sorry, Pluto.)The backside of each lollipop is f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/07/Planet-Lollipops/Voyager I, the space probe launched 35 years a... ...nce of our Sun -in other words, it is leaving the solar system . It's hard to overstate how wild an accomplishme... ...spacecraft is on its way out -- "it's leaving the solar system " -- but we don't know how far it has to go or wha... ...s they appeared a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/18/vger-is-exiting-the-heliosphere/When I was in high school, one of my science t... ...ootball field and helped us create a model of the solar system scaled down to one hundred yards. That's a lot li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/24/6072-page-book-is-a-scale-model-of-the-solar-system/I'm not entirely sure because the website is i... ...t offers chocolate versions of the planets of our solar system . Sadly, they're not to scale, or else I'd call di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/08/chocolate-solar-system/Jeromina Juan of Paper, Plate, and Plane made... ...made cake pops that look like the planets of our solar system (minus Pluto, which shows which side she's on). T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/03/solar-system-cake-pops/This clever Flash-based Solar System Scope website is probably the only time you can s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/04/solar-system-scope/(Video Link) In the past few years, astronome... ...ng other stars. This led some to wonder what our solar system would look like to alien astronomers on the same... ...gas and dust surrounding the outer limits of our solar system . Christopher Stark of the Carnegie Institution f... ...we’ve learned is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/24/how-could-alien-astronomers-detect-planets-in-our-solar-system/Laura Cesari made a set of beaded necklaces th... ...klaces that are patterned after the orbits of our solar system . Each one shows either the entire solar system or a planet and the orbits of its moons in propor... ...other beads orbiting around it like moons. In the Solar System...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/solar-system-necklace/This application will give you a lesson in how d... ...to mine! With some practice, you might get a real system going. Link -via J-Walk Blog
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/my-solar-system/