When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails to do so accurately and to scale. That’s why a group of friends have worked ...

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale. With Earth the size of a marble, they need ...

It's hard for most of us to grasp just how vast the universe and our own solar system actually are. It took days for Apollo astronauts to reach the moon and that is our closest neighbor in the solar ...

All objects with mass pull things towards their center, that pull is called gravity. The more massive an object is, the more its gravity “pulls” on other objects nearby. In space, the gravitational ...

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust more than 4.5 billion years ago. Watch video that features real satellite imagery as well as ...

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