Many people enjoy building LEGOs no matter their age. The same goes for space-related stuff. When those two come together, the perfect product appears. Unfortunately, besides NASA aircraft and some ...

An orrery is a model that can simulate the relative positions and orbits of planets by arranging planets with a rotating mechanism around the sun. Its origins date back to the BC era, and the official ...

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 different ...

Orre-what? It’s a mechanical device whose resulting motions follow the orbital paths of our solar system’s heavenly bodies. Seen below is the finished project of Make enthusiast Guy Himber who ...

An orrery is what you call a mechanical model of all or part of the solar system that shows the relative rotations of the planets and the sun. Many of these old-fashioned celestial models are ...

There are lots of amazing fan-made LEGO Ideas. But unfortunately, not all of them are approved. And sometimes it leaves us wondering why that happened. Now, let’s take a look at this wonderful solar ...

On 1st March this year LEGO released set 42179: Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit which is a LEGO version of an orrery, a type of mechanical model that depicts the movements of the bodies in our solar ...

Is the unmistakable sound of the shuffling of LEGO pieces being dug through burned into your psyche? Did the catalog of ever more complex Technic pieces send your imagination soaring into the ...

A vastly scaled-down Lego version of the Earth, orbiting the Sun, with its moon in tow, is oddly beautiful. An orrery of beauty. An orrery is a clockwork model of the solar system, or of just the sun, ...

A lot of Lego's more recent Technic sets are based on cars and bikes—but its latest has a science-y twist. Reading time 1 minute Lego’s Technic line of mechanical construction sets mostly sticks to ...

Want to know why the sun is non-existant in Alaska? Let Legos help you out. One kind father created this model to help explain why there is very little sunlight in Alaska during the winter. There is ...