So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert.

Their first project, To Scale: The Solar System, spanned seven miles in a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert in 2015. It accurately reproduced the sun and its surrounding planets if Earth were the ...

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That doesn't mean the solar system has to be heliocentric. It's still possible that the Earth is at the center and the sun orbits the Earth but Venus orbits the sun.

There's a lot of space in space. That's the point hammered in by this huge to-scale map of the solar system, If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel, created by the interactive designer Josh Worth.