Sweden Solar System | The LARGEST Solar System Model in the World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- In 1998 a couple of professors at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm got a strange idea. They wanted to make the biggest scale model of the solar system...in the world!
The Sweden Solar System is a collection of planets and other celestial bodies that spans hundreds of kilometers. The Globe Arena in Stockholm acts as the Sun, with Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars all also located in Stockholm at various distances from the Sun.
Jupiter can be found at Arlanda airport, north of Stockholm, and Venus is located in Uppsala. You will find the model of Uranus in Lövstabruk, and Neptune in Söderhamn. Pluto and its biggest moon Charon is located in Delsbo, 300 km from the Globe Arena in Stockholm.
These are the plants and dwarf planets that I visited in this video. But the whole Sweden Solar System model contains a lot more. Asteroids, comets, and lots of other celestial bodies are spread out even further out from Stockholm, until the Terminal Shock is finally reached in a town called Kiruna in the far north. The Terminal Shock is located 950 km from Stockholm.
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They really dropped the ball with Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, specially Jupiter.
Haha yeah, at least Jupiter and Saturn! I thought Uranus was pretty neat actually
Mars is a big rough, looks like a very old leather sports ball stitched together
I felt ripped off by Jupiter and Saturn
IKR???!!
With just a bit more funding, they could make a decent Jupiter and put a ring around Saturn.
in one of the cities in Australia has a scale model of the solar system running along the beach from the Sun to Pluto which is 5.9 km away, in real life it's 5.9 billion km from the sun so it's all at scale, the crazy part is they have Proxima Centauri included, it's a short distance from the Sun and you'd think they just threw it in and placed it nearby but they didn't. if you walked around the entire planet of Earth and then past the Sun when you got to Proxima Centauri you'd have travel the correct distance at scale which I find amazing, really tells you how insanely huge things are
That's really mind-blowing! I know in theory that Astronomical Units and lightyears are really really big....but it's so hard to relate to such incredible distances. I'd love to see that model in Australia though - maybe if I ever get around to exploring down under a bit more :D
The city is Melbourne.
@@bigrobbie1843 Well, this isn't a walking trail - this is the largest scale model of the solar system in the world...
4:37 thats not saturn. Thats its moon titan. Saturn is still under construction.
Oh damn! I just read up on it - you're completely right! I filmed this on my way north one morning, and I just quickly skimmed the article before coming in to Uppsala. Argh, what a mistake...
@@ThreeStarVagabond Hate when stuff like that happens.
@@dogsareawesome9197 Agreed... Oh well, not the first time I make a mistake, and not the last time...
When will they finish it?
@@donnerthereindeer366 i have absolutely no idea.
I'm swedish and i remember being obsessed with these in dec 2017 and these memories the time goes fast, so me and my dad are going to visit the planets, I've heard they removed Mercury but I don't think they would remove something that cool
Haha it does doesn't it? It took me a year to visit all of the different planets but it was such a fun thing to do. Except that I forgot to visit the termination shock when I was in Kiruna...
I like how they did something different with each planet representing its special facts… But then they just hung a plastic ball in the air and called that Saturn. At least put a ring around it or smthn.
Totally agree! Hmm.. And the scale isn't really correct either. Something must have gone terribly wrong with Saturn!
Wow that's so cool!! Sweden continues to amaze, love these journeys 🤗
Thank you! :D It really was cool - a trip that took me several months to complete, since they were all so spread out. But it was worth it! :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond looks like quite the expedition but definitely worth it. Well done 🙌
@@rubye.6278 Woohoo, thanks! :D Trying to find all the weird things to see over here in Sweden :)
This a super interesting idea! Thank you for making the effort to find all these! :)
Thanks :D That feels great to hear - really happy that you enjoyed it! :)
I was thinking of what it would take to make such a model with the new Vegas Sphere as the sun. To my surprise a scale model of the Solar System would only require 504 km to reach Neptune. 665 km if you want to include Pluto. That later distance is almost exactly the straight-line distance between Vegas and San Francisco. I was expecting it to require most of the country.
(I just did more calculations. For a sphere in New York City to represent the sun and Pluto to be situated in Los Angeles, with everything to scale, that sphere would have to be 929.02 meters in diameter. That would definitely be quite the feat to build, especially considering land prices in New York City!)
Haha, I think the NY sphere won't ever happen unfortunately. And the Vegas Sphere to San Francisco would be over a lot of desert and mountains right? But it would be really cool with a Venus model in Death Valley or something (I didn't check where the planets would actually end up - just guesstimating).
@@ThreeStarVagabondmy question with any model tho, is how far would sedna be.
@@ADMICKEY Sedna is actually part of the Sweden Solar System... It's in the town of Luleå, 730 km from the sun! But the museum it's in was closed when I was driving past so I couldn't film it :/
Great video brother. Really like your style my man. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! :D Really appreciate it - and I'm happy that you enjoyed the video!
Many thanks for the amazing journey. So cool!
Thank you for checking it out 😀
Interesting video! Too bad some of the planets didnt seem to get the same treatment as others. Also, I'm assuming you filmed this at various times of year, otherwise it turns from summer to winter within a few hundred kms in Sweden! But at the same time that also had a good effect on it getting colder the further you went out into the solar system lol.
Not exactly filmed in chronological order, no :D I think it's almost a year apart from the first clips to the last ones. Sweden varies a lot between the north and the south, but not that much...
Great tour thank you !
Thank you for checking it out :D
I like how the autumn progresses as you go North
I have to admit that it's filmed at completely different times of the year though :D I filmed the first bits (which were the last planets) on a road trip up north and then added the rest later!
@@ThreeStarVagabond oh...you tricked us. I'm joking, Sweden is nice.
@@cezar211091Haha! "I fooled you all into thinking Sweden is a cool place" eh :D
That Mars-thing looks like a really old leather football… 🙂 Voila, that was my constructive feedback for this week… 😆 I could’ve think of new Uranus jokes… but no… I’m going to leave it at that.
Haha! It does doesn't it? It looked so weird, right in the middle of a mall as well :D Haha! I did my best to try to avoid too many of those - but I couldn't stop it! :D
Great content. Thanks for sharing an excellent, interesting and informative video. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much! :D And it was so much fun to travel around to all the different planets as well - really fun to make this one!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Could you sometime show us some OTHER parts of the Swedish Solar System (Some named meteorites, Ixion, Sedna and some more)?
@@Dahaka-rd6tw That's a great idea! But I don't have a car myself, so I need to fit it in for when I rent a car sometime - all those places are pretty far away from each other :)
YOOO! This is the best model of our SOLAR SYSTEM!!!!!!!!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Haha, I agree! even though I'm a bit biased as well :D
Fascinating!!
Yeah it is, isn't it! Really cool project :D
Good video ! , the model is a good way to get some sort of understanding of the scale of the solar system.
Thank you! :D Yeah, I thought it was a really fun thing to do, to visit all of these places. It's really amazing to feel the scale that way!
A unique representation. 👍
Thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Is it just my perception, or does it seem as though the budget and quality for each planet diminishes, the farther away they are?
Edit: oh! Except Neptune! Neptune's display is lovely.
I totally agree! It's like they had a great idea and got some backers around Stockholm (except for Jupiter). And then it was like...we'll take what we can get! :D
I really like this man energy i subscribed
Hey thank you so much! :D
WOW!
that is soooo sweet of Sweden to make this, since it is totally private and understood only by us the space buffs. the common humans neither understand nor care about such a thing. (they only care about food and sex, and a place to fight each other). this is lovely and so apt
I love all kinds of weird and nerdy projects like this one! But oh well, everyone can't be a proper geek to appreciate stuff like this unfortunately :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond yep, thatz the story, good fellow. but i dont think you go for all kinds of weird, but only some kinda weird
@@TWOCOWS1 Just weird enough in all the ways that count, or something like that!
@@ThreeStarVagabond we'll c about that if u ever passed through Gotham here.
We miss your Beery Christmas videos :) We watched your videos while we tasted the daily beer and we had lots of fun specially with the "bad tasting" beers. Regards from Spain!
Oooh, thank you! :D So sorry for not having one this year - we decided to have more boring calendars this year, with chocolate and candles and stuff instead. The beers were so much fun though! :D
Glad you found uranus! Stinks that the person you asked for informations on how to find it wasn't able to tell you where it was
You have no idea how many takes I had to do when recording that. I'm just a wee kid at heart, and I was giggling too much each time!
@@ThreeStarVagabond To prevent from feeling embarressed and sounding silly in this situation, just put the word "Planet" in front of the word. It's also more dignified to pronounce it "Your-a-nuss".
@@Benjybass Very good advice! I have to admit that I was perfectly happy to not sound very dignified or serious... Sorry, I have my quite immature moments!
The Sun took 800 million freaking crowns to build, Mercury, Venus Earth and Mars were all pretty cool... it started off so well... otherwise this looks like a work in progress
I wish there could be some renewed interest. You don't have to do anything special with Jupiter and Saturn and its Moons, just something that can be easily recognized. It doesn't seem right to leave it like this
I lived in Stockholm for 6 months when I was a kid it is a beautiful city. The Wasa bread was one of my favorites.
Agreed! I mean, it's such a great idea and it could be done into a proper tourist attraction - but it's all pretty half-arsedly done. Still, I had a lot of fun discovering all of the planets at least.
Oh nice! Yeah, I always have some knäckebröd at home - it's great. Wasa breakfastknäcke is the good stuff :D
Today I learned Saturn is apperently alot smaller than Uranus and Neptune. Who knew?!
I have a slight suspicion that something went wrong with Saturn :D
Thank you for you video very enjoyable. England as two scales solar system at York and in Somerset. Saturn didn't look like it was to scale? Interesting fact all the planets can fit between the Earth and the Moon.
Thanks! Yeah in retrospect I think that Saturn may actually have been intended to be another installation - that must have been a moon of Saturn or something... But yeah, that's a really interesting fact! Really shows how far away the Earth and the Moon really are from each other :D
How do you come up with these subjects every time?
Haha, I have no idea - I just google weird things and have a huge backlog of places I want to go :D
I live in Delsbo (short E, BTW)! :D
Whaat, short E? That sounds...weird! Dellsbo? But cheers, I drove past you in that case a while ago :D
I would love to see some for of fundraiser done for this as a way to pay for upgrades of these planets. This was definitely a super cool idea that was poorly funded. Jupiter was ugly but Uranus is the crappiest of them all.😂
No pun intended there, I ass-ume :D But yes agreed! It's a really neat project, and I love some of the models (like Mercury and the Sun). But some are just...rather pathetic. To be honest, the full model is actually a lot bigger and includes asteroids and whatnot at various places in Sweden - but that was just too much to cover.
@@ThreeStarVagabond oh, did I make a pun lol. I thought it was fitting though.
At that scale I wonder how far Proxima Centauri would be?I was thinking Cape Town but that's probably too close to Stockholm!
Okay so I just did some really quick calculations, but I think it'd actually be... Twice the distance to the moon!
@@ThreeStarVagabond you are probably about right as there's one in Melbourne, Australia at a smaller scale than the Stockholm one and Proxima Centauri is right next to the Sun.Right next to it may seem strange but that because it represents going around the Earth once,40060km,to get there!
@@kevanhubbard9673 Haha! That's a pretty sneaky way to define the distance. Interesting! I'm getting curious about how many of these scale models there are around the world...
@@ThreeStarVagabondabout my guess too. These distances are crazy fsr
In New South Wales, Australia they have the Solar system to scale. Earth is about a metre in size and you have to drive to the next town before you see the next planet. Our solar system is just one star in the Milky way and we have 250 billion other stars in it, just on math alone there should be at least 3 other planets with life equivalent to ours and then taking all the galaxies we have recorded there is another the 500 billion galaxies.
Disappointed in the Jupiter and Saturn pieces.
Haha me too! :D
6:30 I am guessing the darkness is due to the fact this was filmed in late November really close to the Arctic Circle ;P
More like it was filmed in late afternoon in Sweden during winter. We have very very few hours of sun! But yeah it didn't help that it was a bit further up north....
Are they not supposed to be to scale? Saturn seemed way too small compared to Jupiter?
Believe it or not, but that never struck me until people commented on it! Now I'm wondering if I accidentally found the wrong planet or something. But I think it was the right one...
I really appreciate you effort for this great and informative video, I think it’s a pity that they haven’t done the best job for creating the planets, they could do much better, it potentially could be a great touristic thing but they didn’t created and presented it in the best way they could 🙁
First that I heard I was so exited about that and then… Really a pity 🙁
Agreed! This seems more like an interesting side project that never got the chance to become something big. It's still really fascinating and a nice trip to make!
They should build one in Florida. It would be the second largest in the world behind Sweden's, and like theirs it would use an existing spherical building for the Sun.
Sun: Spaceship Earth, Epcot, Walt Disney World. 50.29m diameter.
Mercury: Diameter 17.63 cm, Orbital radius 2.092 km. Located at the front gate of Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Venus: Diameter 43.72 cm, Orbital radius 3.909 km. Located at the southwest corner of the Magic Kingdom parking lot.
Earth: Diameter 46.03 cm, Orbital radius 5.405 km. Located next to the Magic Kingdom's ferry dock, along with the Moon.
Moon: Diameter 12.55 cm, Orbital radius 13.89 m.
Mars: Diameter 24.49 cm, Orbital radius 8.234 km. Located at Lakeside Village Center, Windermere.
Ceres: Diameter 3.432 cm, Orbital radius 14.95 km. Located at Fairfield Inn just to the northeast of Universal Studios.
Jupiter: Diameter 5.05m, Orbital radius: 28.13 km. Located at Loch Haven Park next to Orlando Science Center, along with the Galilean moons.
Io: Diameter 13.16 cm, Orbital radius 15.24 m.
Europa: Diameter 11.34 cm, Orbital radius 24.24 m.
Ganymede: Diameter 19.03 cm, Orbital radius 38.66 m.
Callisto: Diameter 17.42 cm, Orbital radius 68.03 m.
Saturn: Diameter 4.21 m, Orbital radius 51.77 km. Located in Seminole Towne Center mall, Sanford, along with Titan.
Titan: Diameter 18.61 cm, Orbital radius 44.15 m
Uranus: Diameter 183.2 cm, Orbital radius 103.9 km. Located at Hillsborough Community College, Tampa.
Neptune: Diameter 177.9 cm, Orbital radius 162.7 km. Located at Northside Shopping Center, Gainesville, along with Triton.
Triton: Diameter 9.78 cm Orbital radius 12.82 m
Pluto: Diameter 8.57 cm, Orbital radius 212.2 km. Located at River City Science Academy, Jacksonville.
Coming up with all of this was simply a matter of plugging Spaceship Earth's diameter into this calculator, then mapping out the orbits of each planet using Google Earth's circle tool, and finding the most interesting spot on each orbit: thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php
Cool. Could you do calculation for the 157 m wide MSG sphere in Las Vegas ? Would the planets stretch out to Area 51 and beyond? 😄👽
@@martineldritch Oh, by far. Earth's orbit would almost completely encircle Vegas, except for a bit at the northwest. The Hoover Dam would be inside Jupiter's orbit, Area 51 would be inside Saturn's. Uranus's orbit would be just shy of reaching Flagstaff and Los Angeles. Neptune's orbit would reach Mexico and the Pacific. Pluto's's orbit would just barely graze Idaho and Wyoming, and would pass right through San Francisco and Nogales. As far as sizes go, Earth would be 143.7 cm diameter, and Jupiter would be 15.77 m diameter. I feel like this wouldn't make as good a model as Florida's, too many of the locations are too remote, the models would need to be huge, and the distances would of course be enormous as well. Hardly anyone would see the whole thing.
Damn, you've got it all figured out there! Such a cool idea - they really should build that :D
I want a Solar System model in the Philippines where the Sun is in Rizal Park, Manila. What would it look like?
It would be cool if it went south to Batangas, Puerto Galera, maybe a planet as a buoy by Apo Reef, and then to Coron etc. Maybe El Nido could be Pluto, since it's pretty remote ^_^
@@ThreeStarVagabond If the Solar System was on a scale of 1 meter = 100000 kilometers, Earth would be somewhere near Malate, Saturn would be somewhere in Parañaque and Pluto would be all the way south in Santo Tomas, Batangas. Sedna would be in northern Mindoro.
@@FebruaryHas30Days Nicely calculated! That would be an amazing model to see
"A small model of the Earth can be found here." Yeah, sometimes called a globe...
Cheeky bastard! :D
Why Jupiter and Saturn (the coolest planet) are so badly represented????
I can only agree! As for Jupiter, I unfortunately think that it's because the airport didn't want anything "too weird" inside their building :/
Fun fact: the planets are the wrong sizes relative to the sphere.
...Especially Saturn
lets make a 1:1 replica
Let's build a new sun in Stockholm!
Looks like budget took a deep dive after Venus.
"No one is ever going to visit these other planets up north! Let's just have the kids do some papier mache balls."
Uranus is pretty large uh?
It's a big ass planet alright!
Saturn and Uranus really was odd looking lol... And kinda disappointing. Jupiter oddly felt fitting even though it's just a ring
I was actually really disappointed with Jupiter... And some of the others as well of course. It just feels like such a wasted opportunity!
@@ThreeStarVagabond yeah. But TBH, now that a basic version of this is there, they can improve everything over time.
I hope they actually add more ... celestial bodies that are important, as well as actually having a full model of the planets instead of a ring, Lamp light or a mesh
@@newbie4789 I wish they'd do that, but I think that no one has invested in the project for a long time now :/ But yeah a mesh with silhouettes of features on the planet etc would be awesome! Jupiter with a red LED mesh for the red circle etc would be nice
I love how this video even showcased how you could technically visit them in one day, although it would be very dark at the end, for Pluto.
PS: was that ball really Saturn, or was it just a "placeholder"?
Exactly! Although I actually didn't do it in just one day unfortunately. That would have been really fun! And hmm.. It never struck me, but now that you mention it, Saturn looked really small compared to the others...
@@ThreeStarVagabond Maybe there's a reason behind that? Even a structural one, like "if you get a Saturn ball that's *actually* in scale there, it won't stay up"?
Or perhaps it is a matter of perspective, after all they do get more abstract the further away
@@NIDELLANEUM Yeah that makes perfect sense! But in that case... Why hang it up there?! Why not just place it on the ground. Weird people :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond you expect people who looked at the Avicii Arena and thought "hey this is the Sun" and built a Solar System on that to not be weird?
@@NIDELLANEUM I wonder what that says about people who see this weird project and thinks "This looks cool! I'm going to drive around to look at these places, and make a video about it!"
Swedish budget kept on diminishing for the project 😂
Haha, that must have been it, right :D
Saturn seems small to me.
Yeah it does! But I think I got the right one - not sure why it's so tiny...
Such a nice idea but terribly executed
Haha yeah, both the solar system model and my filming of it ;D
Saturn doesn't exist yet... That ball was WAYYYYYY too small...
Haha yes. I didn't even think about it cause I filmed the spots at different times
Amazing... I do thing Saturn is kidna lame tho :( not as interesting as the other models.
Haha, agreed! And I didn't find Jupiter all that interesting either. But it was a really fun project, to go to all of these places :D
3:26 let's be real. It's not happening.
One can dream at least! :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond yes, but your imagination and intelligence are better used in 1) interesting fiction 2) actual projects useful for a future with less ressources, energy and land
Yeah, Saturn is not to scale...
...Something that didn't even strike me when I filmed that bit!
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus suck..such a shame everything else is so beautiful
Haha I kinda thought Uranus was pretty interesting looking at least. But yeah it's nothing next to Neptune.
what a cheap project. loved the idea but poorly executed
Pretty much sums up a lot of things in Sweden I'd say ;D
But we don't know
But we do.
Sorry, but this was not very impressive.
Fair enough! I thought it was a really fun thing to see at least 😊
If you can't show the earth and moon in the same frame then it's all pointless. One just has to take your word for it that's the whole point is visual and would it kill you to mention miles along with meters .
That's a good idea! Would have made perfect sense to film it like that. But nah, way too much trouble converting every value to miles.
So they made jupiter a ring and Saturn doesn't even have a ring, ok!
Haha, pretty much sums up the ambition level of the project...
@@ThreeStarVagabond I think it's a great project but I'm just a little confused as to why they didn't make satun the ring as satun is unique in our solar system because of its rings, I get that jupiter would be pretty big but even a half globe would have made more sense, to me anyway,
I never heard of the project till I saw this video, so thank you for the wonderful tour 👍
@@rocoe9019 I think the idea was great but they had some issues with funding and approvals etc. Like Saturn, that one was likely not finished properly. And Jupiter was probably the airport that said no to any large installations... Still, I had a lot of fun visiting these places!