The duo figured out they needed at least seven miles of quiet space to actually build a proper Solar System model and they chose a desert for the project. Overstreet and Gorosh went to Nevada ...

If the usual artistic depictions of our solar system are anything to go by ... and a physical model with realistic distances would look, well, pretty strange. A web page, on the other hand ...

Each model is 1.2 inches (3 centimeters ... the camera at any of the nine models. [Our Solar System: A Photo Tour of the Planets] 3D-print a realistic supernova remnant with NASA's new models ...