DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

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Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...