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Scaled to the size of a beach ball, say scientists, the sun's equatorial bulge would be less than the width of a human hair.

This is a collection of imagined vistas from the Earth and other planets.

This video shows asteroids discovered since 1980! New version with data up to the end of May 2011.

This solar system just doesn't work. According to a new computer simulation, the planets could never have come together in their current configuration. The only explanation is that we once had a fifth gas giant...and it's still out there somewhere.

Sydneysiders can walk around the sun and its planets when a temporary exhibition of our solar system is erected along the city's beaches this weekend. The scale-model of the solar system will begin at Maroubra Beach with the sun, and end with the dwarf planet, Pluto, almost three kilometres away.

videoclip showing views of the Sun.

Construct the perfect solar system in the Known Universe Solar System Builder. Choose your star, then create a wide variety of planets and send them spinning into orbit.

Outstanding night sky timelapse footage.

Michael Carroll' official website.

illustrator/author specializing in science, astronomy, science fiction and fantasy.