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Why the Solar System Isn't Like Your Textbook: Space's True Scale
Textbook diagrams squeeze the planets close together — but space is mostly empty. Using a basketball-sized Sun, see just how tiny and far apart the planets really are, and why scale is so hard to picture.
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