🪐 Solar System Mobile 🌌 Check out this week’s instalment of #DoTryThisAtHome – making your own solar system mobile! ☀💫 The planets in our solar system vary enormously in size - Earth could fit inside Jupiter 1300 times! Since 1704 we have been using orreries to show the relative size and orbits of the planets in our solar system. To find out more about orreries and how to make your own solar system mobile head over to this week’s activity. ↪️ http://wethecurious.org/dotrythisathome/solar-syst

The Webby Awards have nominated the entire solar system! Well, our interactive model of the planets is up for a People’s Choice award in the Apps, Mobile and Voice category. 🚀 Give it a try! See the current locations of the solar system’s planets and moons in 3D — as well as the spacecraft exploring them — using real NASA data: go.nasa.gov/2z2U700 ☑️If you like it, we could use your vote before May 7! wbby.co/mob12 You can see more of NASA’s 12 nominations in this year’s competition at go.nasa.