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.

For more information about the Sweden Solar System, check out the website: http://www.swedensolarsystem.se/en/

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