Sweden Solar System - World's Biggest Scale Model!

Join me on a trip through the Sweden Solar System, the world's biggest model of our Solar System! In this video, we'll visit all of the planets. See where they are, how big they are and how far they are from each other.

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00:00 Intro
00:49 Overview
01:15 The Sun
01:27 Mercury
01:55 Venus
02:16 Earth & Moon
02:41 Mars
03:01 Jupiter & Moons
03:42 Saturn
04:11 Uranus
04:38 Neptune
05:33 Pluto & Charon
06:23 Ending

[FewVidsJustComments]

This is nice and all, but I still think they could of done Jupiter as more than just a ring 😒

[slovakflamingo]

Heeeey, I am from Slovakia and this summer I went to Sweden to see this and it was sooo worth it. But you made a few mistakes... It's not 2 moons of Jupiter... There are 4 of them in the hallway... Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. What else you forgot to mention is that in Uppsala the Saturn was made out of flowers, couple of years ago, then there was the moon Titan, hanging on the house of Celsius, and every school in Uppsala made a model of one of the moons of Saturn. I came there during this summer and all the schools were closed. And I wandered around the schools like a weirdo, trying to see through a window or a door... The moons... But if my eyes were right I saw one - Mimas. If you're from Sweden you can try to enter some schools during the school year and ask. And yup I went to Kiruna and Luleå... Because of this model. What the funniest part of my trip were the human interaction with people that I met on the train or the bus, and they asked me what am I doing in the middle of nowhere Sweden and when I explained them what they have under their noses they we stunned, interested and a bit sad that they didn't know about this even though they live for example 2 minutes away.
Anyway thank you Gabriel, because of you and your cute YouTube Shorts I went to Sweden and I had the best time ever.

[elitecereal]

I'm from Sweden and this is very interesting to me! It truly gives you an idea of just how large space really is.

[artistjoh]

I love that this model includes the termination shock at the edge of the heliosphere. There is also a solar systen drive in Australia that is hundreds of kilometers long, but it ends at Pluto and they really should add Kuiper Belt objects, Oort Cloud, and termination of the heliosphere.

The sun is represented by the giant dome of the Siding Springs Observatory. It is the world's largest model by area because it radiates along five seperate highways, each with their own models of planets but all converging on Siding Springs observatory.

These sort of driving solar system models are valuable for exciting interest amongst people who might not otherwise be interested in astronomy but find the drive really interesting. It also conveys to people an impression of both the vastness and the emptiness of the solar system and why it takes years for spacecraft to reach the more distant objects.

[Tilten]

I prefer the Melbourne Solar System where you can walk from the Sun to Pluto in an hour (5, 9 km).

[edl]

What is really cool is you can drive faster than the speed of light.

[kushclarkkent]

This is the most creative thing I've EVER seen. Thankful to the artists who made this. And thank you for telling us about it! Subbed!

[nielsdaemen]

It's a shame they didn't make Jupiter and Saturn!

[derreckwalls]

This really puts things in perspective. Even with all the planets around all the stars in all the galaxies in the whole universe... even with innumerable massive black holes and unfathomable expanses of interstellar dust... the ever expanding universe is still virtually empty and is becoming more empty every instant. And then, even the matter that makes it all up is almost entirely empty space.
That's just crazy!

[tajb]

okay now I want to travel Sweden to reach each planet

[aizins]

i love how you narrate! you have a very soothing voice

[doilysimpkin]

I love that people have done this. What a great idea.

[luminousfractal]

They had a nice one at arecibo puerto rico. As you walk into the telescope building there's a long curved pathway, they put little scale models along the handrail at the correct distances. It was very cool. Hope someone rescued those models.

[StefenTower]

Looks like they cheaped out on the Uranus presentation.

[grotgrusson]

Even though I live in Sweden, knowing that the _Globen_ (it will always be known as Globen 😄) is the "starting point", I always thought that the other reference planets was buildings, not actual scale models of the planet, and that was what made this so cool in my head...

Eg: _Globen_ is the Sun, _Katarina kyrka_ is Venus, _Stadshuset_ would be Mars, and so on*

*) I just took these buildings as an example, dont think they even fit in the solar system lay out 😄

[MrBarberousse]

I went to visit the SSS many years ago. My timing was bas: Mercury was not accessible (museum was closed for renovations) and Jupiter was in between models. I still got to see many dwarf planets.

Also, you forgot to mention Titan is in Uppsala.

[jabber]

are Pluto and Caron really that close to each other?

[mienfobelets]

Since 1994 we visited Sweden for 18 times, each time at least for one month. For some stupid reason we didn't visit this solar system yet.

[cjshardcorepunkmusicvault]

Very cool. But not something you can just do in a day like the one in Australia. Why is Saturn missing?

[rqlk]

This puts into perspective the size of our solar system, and think how much bigger the universe is, too. I appreciate you including imperial units but here are a couple tips from a stupid American viewer 😉. We work in fractions of an inch, not decimals, specifically starting at a denominator of two then doubling it over and over for more and more precision. For feet you would use number of inches or fractions of an inch instead of decimals. So at 2:12 you could say 24 1/2 in or 24 3/8 depending on the level of precision you want. You could also write it with the decimals of 24.5 or 24.375 in just not 24.4. At 5:08 you could say 8’2.5” or 8 ft 2.5 in. Thanks again for making this video and kind regards to you.