How to Build a Seven-Mile-Wide Scale Model of the Solar System It takes three-and-a-half miles to get from the Sun to Pluto. Danny Lewis. September 21, 2015. Get our newsletter!

A web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using only web standards. It’s fully animated — though Alex takes advantage of some new CSS 3 features (border ...

The solar system is arrayed along a horizontal page and you can scroll through using the bar (we preferred a touchscreen, but your mileage may vary), with a ruler indicating relative distance.

Using a dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, the duo built their solar system model complete with planetary orbits. The project really puts into perspective just how tiny our home ...