The solar system, at true scale, wherever you are.
A Local Solar System is the solar system rendered at true proportion, at any size you choose. Shrink it to fit a bedroom wall. Stretch it down a hallway, across a campus, through a neighborhood, or along an entire state highway. One scale factor governs everything: the size of the Sun, the size of each planet, and the distances between them.
At every scale, the same truth appears. The planets are tiny. The gaps are enormous. Walk, bike, or trace it with your eyes, and you'll understand something no diagram can show you.
We explain, through an unforgettable experience, how much space is in space, and how small we are.
Pick a scale, place the Sun, and install each planet at its true proportional distance. The model isn't on a page, it's the length of a park, a path, a downtown.
Each body is marked by a durable brass plaque: its scaled distance from the Sun, its real diameter, and the light-travel time from the Sun.
Earth lands a few hundred feet from the Sun; Neptune is most of a mile away. Walking the gaps reveals the one thing diagrams hide.
On a walkable scale the inner planets huddle near the Sun while the outer ones drift impossibly far apart. That gap, the part every diagram quietly deletes, is what you actually walk.
Each marker carries the planet's scaled distance, its true diameter, and how long light from the Sun takes to reach it, real, and unscaled.