A model of the Solar System that shows sizes to scale as well as distances to scale, using distance and radius details from NASA's Solar System Exploration website. But it is critical to note that this image should not be considered a "scale model" as it does not depict both sizes and distances at the same scale. With planetary distances at this scale shown, the sizes of all of the planets and even the Sun would be less than one pixel. Another distortion needing to be clarified is that the location of the Sun would be where the surface edge of the Sun nearest to Mercury is.
In order to show the Sun-Neptune distance (30 AU) to scale with the size of the Sun (0.0093 AU) at 1 pixel wide, the image has to be 6250 pixels wide. While the image shown above is 6808 pixels wide, it actually presents a Sun-Neptune distance of less than 4600 pixels because the Sun-Neptune distance, as stated above, is represented from the surface of the the Sun-sphere that is shown. So even for this image at its full width, the Sun's size if shown to scale would be only two-thirds of a pixel wide.
Also, if the lighting were to be more accurately shown then the right half of each planet would be dark as that side is in the shadow of the Sun (night).
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October 22, 2006, Dave Jarvis
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