DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.
Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse ... This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as accepted wisdom at ...
The ancient belief that planets followed perfect circular orbits aligns intriguingly with modern theories of planet ... and tilted orbits of the Solar System’s gas giants remain an enduring ...