A new project by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh sought to explain just how vast our local neighbourhood of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets really is, by building the first scale ...

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.

I’m at a loss for words. This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed ...

A 3D Augmented Reality model of Saturn (Credit: Google, NASA) The new partnership has also seen the ‘Our Solar System’ project added to Google Arts & Culture.

Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? Well, you couldn’t have made it any other way ...

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) ...

A new set of informational displays is now in the works. Parker King, the concept designer for the Cumberland model, says the Eugene solar system was his inspiration for the project.

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide.