Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

Picture the solar system. I'm guessing the image in your head is similar to what you might see in an astronomy text with colorful spheres of different sizes set on a series of nested circles orbiting ...

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece is ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

The first element in a scale model solar system was placed Saturday at the McCarthy Observatory on the New Milford High School campus. The sun, measuring six feet in diameter, topping over 11 feet off ...

A scale model of the solar system, with each planet depicted in relief on individual square granite markers installed atop concrete bases embedded in the ground. Each planet bears a laser etched ...

NEW MILFORD -- For the fourth time in a year, vandals have stolen or damaged planets or other space-related pieces of the all-volunteer McCarthy Observatory's 6-mile wide, scale-model solar system.