Sun's vicinity representation

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http://www.arbesman.net/blog/2010/12/27/lego-map-of-nearby-stars/

Is this the best we can do?

a pop up book

Space engine. Set the view to center on Earth and then back off a few light years, and ramp up time until you're circling Sol at whatever distance you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltcnr6uXDR4

Or else a mobile.

>>8953377
>Sol

fuck off with your scifi bullshit you retarded faggot

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>>8953384

You sound like a happy person.

But anyway, Sol is a lot older name than "the Sun". Dang barbarians.

>>8953404
lol it's literally the same word just in an older language. Unless you are speaking Latin, saying "sol" isn't more correct than saying "sun". It's literally just inserting a Latin word into an English sentence for no reason.

>>8953441
english is a shit language

>>8953377
Well, I guess a mobile would be better than that lego set. But it wouldn't support many stars.

I am kind of interested in building a model.

>>8953963
I've seen, somewhere, someone do something similar with fiber optics and a few colored LEDs (all you need is white, blue, yellow, orange, red, and maybe a dim deep red for the dwarfs). Fiddly work but the result can look really nice in the dark.

>>8953156
I've seen a kit that does this. Two plates of plexiglass separated by rods about 20cm (8") in the corners. Holes are drilled in the plates in positions that represent the X/Y of 50 nearest stars (Sun in the center). Then you string fishing line from on hole to the next corresponding one with a bead representing a star looped on, which you slide up or down the string to is correct Z position, and put a dab of superglue on it to keep its place.

>>8954674
P.S. There were four different colored beads to represent the spectral types - blue, red, yellow, white. All same size though.