[Illusionmanager] continues the orrery tradition but uses a different approach: he built a beautiful ceiling-mounted model of our Solar System without a gearing system. The mechanism that makes ...

We aren’t sure how accurate you can get with LEGO, but a building block orrery looks cool, if nothing else. [Marian42] saw one done a few years ago and decided to build a version with a ...

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical ... But as we move further away from the sun into the darkness of space, the planets are mainly made up of gas.

Installed in the gallery space of the Discovery Centre’s Planet Pavilion, it can be driven by a large winding handle, allowing visitors to orchestrate the motion of the planets themselves. The orrery ...

Presenter:We've got films and computers to show us all of space but at the time of this painting, the orrery was the best way to show the universe in action. Presenter:Perhaps these are the people ...