Where in Maine?
Building a universe is not easy. Constructing a solar system, now, that's more manageable. You still need a lot of space, though. Lucky for the folks who built the planet pictured here, there is plenty of terrain in the far reaches of the Pine Tree State. A whole host of people donated their time to build this forty-mile replica of our solar system at an exact scale that makes it the largest three-dimensional model in the world. The sculptural sun is about fifty-feet tall, and it's located at one of the schools in the University of Maine System.
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