A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

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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.

A 3D model of the solar neighborhood, within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Overstreet said, "is to build one." First they had to determine how much space they needed. It ended up being 7 miles of empty space ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

THIS IS THE OTHER EDGE OF THE SUN, IS THE FORCE BEHIND AROOSTOOK SCALE MODEL OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE LARGEST 3D MODEL IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, STRETCHING 40 MILES ALONG ROUTE ONE FROM PLUTO IN ...

"Many other companies are always trying their best to get someone to buy something, at the highest price." This cutting-edge ...