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Solar System

Saturn at its closest point to Earth in 2019.

Saturn at Opposition Is an Unforgettable Stargazing Experience

The ringed planet will be at its closest point to Earth, and opposite the sun, this weekend.

Rebecca Boyle August 23, 2023

The Globe, also known as the Avicii Arena, inspired the Sweden Solar System.

There’s an Entire Solar System Hiding In Sweden

Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system—and Sweden.

Frank Jacobs, Big Think July 14, 2023

AGU Building with the planet display beginning on the corner of Florida Ave & 20th St.

Washington, D.C.

American Geophysical Union Sidewalk Planet Display

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

Otford Solar Sytem

Otford, England

Otford Solar System

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

Why a 16th-Century Artist Imagined Comets as Glorious, Fiery Swords

Explore a captivating compendium of cosmic illustrations.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 29, 2020

Planetarium Zuylenburg.

Oud-Zuilen, Netherlands

Planetarium Zuylenburg

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

Göttingen, Germany

Planetenweg Göttingen

A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.

A 19th-century astronomer's map, titled "Stars for July."

See How the Moon Has Been Mapped Through Time

A new exhibit in London has 300 years of celestial ephemera on display.

Evan Nicole Brown July 3, 2019

The corona is most visible during a total solar eclipse, like this one, captured on August 21, 2017.

How Do You Do Color Commentary for an Eclipse?

Live from space, it’s a grand celestial phenomenon!

Jessica Leigh Hester July 2, 2019

Saturn.

Móstoles, Spain

Móstoles Planets Garden

A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

The statue and solar system.

Nicolaus Copernicus Monument

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Munich, Germany

Fraunhofer Refractor at the Deutsches Museum

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

In 1958, space was full of mysteries. Here's a detail of the the AMOCO Map of Space Mysteries, designed by Rudy de Reyna.

Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries

What have we learned about the cosmos over the past 60 years?

Jessica Leigh Hester August 24, 2018

The Cassini spacecraft captured this nearly edge-on view of Saturn's rings and the moons Mimas, Janus, and Tethys.

How to Appreciate Saturn as Abstract Art

In an image captured by Cassini, the gas giant's rings look like razor-thin blades.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 14, 2018

How many craters and dark spots can you name?

Who Keeps Track of All the Craters on the Moon?

For generations, women have been critical to bringing order to the chaos of the solar system.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 25, 2018

The Kepler-90 system now ties with our solar system in number of planets.

Found: An Eighth Planet Orbiting a Far-Flung Star

The discovery of Kepler-90i was made possible with artificial intelligence.

Vittoria Traverso December 15, 2017

Nominal trajectory of possible hyperbolic comet C/2017 U1

Found: A Comet on a Weird, Wild Swoop Around the Sun

It may be the first interstellar comet ever observed.

Sarah Laskow October 26, 2017

The object 288P, with the binary asteroids' orbit in blue.

Hubble Spotted a Strange New Object in Our Solar System

It's kind of a comet and kind of an asteroid that orbits itself, and it could tell us something about early Earth.

Kelsey Kennedy September 21, 2017