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Weekend Warm-Up: The Solar System to Scale

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.
WABI-TV

Maine’s Solar System Model expands

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...
WBUR

Maine Solar System Model adds dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...
The New York Times

This Is Not the Way We Usually Imagine the World Will End

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...
USA Today

Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system'

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.