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The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System. The
Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...
is represented by the
Avicii Arena Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockho ...
in Stockholm, the largest hemispherical building in the world. The inner planets can also be found in Stockholm but the outer planets are situated northward in other cities along the
Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
. The system was started by Nils Brenning, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Gösta Gahm, professor at the Stockholm University. The model represents the Solar System on the scale of 1:20 000 000, i.e. one metre represents 20,000 km.


The system

The bodies represented in this model include the
Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...
, the
planet A planet is a large, Hydrostatic equilibrium, rounded Astronomical object, astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets b ...
s (and some of their
moons A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, a deriva ...
),
dwarf planets A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be hydrostatic equilibrium, gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve clearing the neighbourhood, orbital dominance like the ...
and many types of small bodies (
comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or Coma (cometary), coma surrounding ...
s,
asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
s, trans-Neptunians, etc.), as well as some abstract concepts (like the Termination Shock zone). Because of the existence of many small bodies in the real
Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ...
, the model can always be further increased. The
Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...
is represented by the
Avicii Arena Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockho ...
(Globen),
Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
, which is the largest hemispherical building in the world, in diameter. To respect the scale, the globe represents the Sun including its corona.


Inner planets

* Mercury ( in diameter) is placed at Stockholm City Museum, from the Globe. The small metallic sphere was built by the artist Peter Varhelyi. *
Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...
( in diameter) is placed at Vetenskapens hus at the
KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...
, from the Globe. It was previously located at the Observatory Museum in Stockholm (now closed). A previous model, made by the United States artist Daniel Oberti, was inaugurated during a Venus transit on 8 June 2004 and placed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It fell and shattered around 11 June 2011. *
Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...
( in diameter) is located at the
Swedish Museum of Natural History The Swedish Museum of Natural History (), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes bac ...
, from the Globe. Satellite images of the Earth are exhibited beside the Globe. An elaborate model of
the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth's diameter). The Moon rotates, with a rotation period ( lunar day) that is synchronized to its orbital period ( lunar ...
( in diameter) is also on display, about 20 meters from the model of Earth. *
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...
( in diameter) is located at Mörby centrum, a shopping centre and Stockholm metro station in
Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Sto ...
, a suburb of Stockholm. It is from the Globe. The model, made in copper by the Finnish artist Heikki Haapanen, is connected by an "umbilical cord" to a steel plate on the floor having an Earth image. The globe also features marks that represent some typical Martian chemical elements.


Gas giants

*
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
( in diameter) is placed inside the
Clarion Hotel Choice Hotels International, Inc. is an American multinational hospitality industry, hospitality company based in North Bethesda, Maryland. The company, which is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, owns various hotel brands ranging fro ...
located at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in
Sigtuna Municipality Sigtuna Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Märsta, approximately north of the Swedish capital, Stockholm. The municipality is a part of Metropolitan Stockholm. The municipality c ...
, from the Globe. Previously, it was made as a flower decoration, with different flowers representing different zones of the giant gas planet. Today, the planet is depicted as a ring light above a lobby. *
Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 tim ...
( in diameter) is placed outside the old observatory of
Anders Celsius Anders Celsius (; 27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedes, Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories ...
, in the square Celsiustorget in the centre of
Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...
, from the Globe. Inaugurated during the
International Year of Astronomy The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a year-long celebration of astronomy that took place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei and the pu ...
,Press release
linked 8 June 2009.
the model is a mat with a picture of Saturn, but will eventually grow to crown a school planetarium in the city. In addition, several schools in Uppsala are to provide moons of Saturn: the first completed was
Enceladus Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th-largest in the Solar System. It is about in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is covered by clean, freshly deposited snow hundreds of meters thick, ...
(diameter ) at Kvarngärdesskolan. ''(Note: The model was taken down due to vandalism)'' *
Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a Supercritical fluid, supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or Volatile ( ...
( in diameter) was vandalized and the new model was reconstructed behind Stora magasinet in
Lövstabruk Lövstabruk is a village on a common in the parish of Österlövsta, Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden. In 2010 it had a population of 96, compared to some 1300 at its height during the 18th century. The word ''lövsta'' is derived fro ...
in 2012. It is an outdoor model made of blue steel bars. The rotation axis of the planet is marked in red. *
Neptune Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the List of Solar System objects by size, fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 t ...
( in diameter) is located by the river Söderhamnsån in
Söderhamn Söderhamn is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Söderhamn Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 11,761 inhabitants in 2010. Sports The biggest local sport is bandy. Broberg/Söderhamn Bandy play in the highest division E ...
, a coast town with tradition of fishing and sailing (which relates to
Neptune Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the List of Solar System objects by size, fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 t ...
being the deity of the seas). Placed from the Globe, the model is made of acrylic and, at night, shines with a blue light.


Trans-Neptunian objects

*
Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of Trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Su ...
( in diameter) and its largest moon
Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( ; ) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and ...
are placed near the southern of the Dellen lakes, in Delsbo, from the Globe. The lakes are thought to be formed by a
meteorite A meteorite is a rock (geology), rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical ...
impact 90 million years ago. The two bodies' sculptures are supported by two gravelike pillars (as
Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of Trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Su ...
is the deity for death), made up with dellenite, a rare mineral formed at that place by the meteorite impact. *
Haumea Haumea ( minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory, and formally announced in 2005 by a team heade ...
( in diameter) and its moons are depicted in the 2047 Science Centre,
Borlänge Borlänge () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality which as of 2017 had a total population of 51,604 inhabitants. History Originally Bor ...
, from the Globe. * Quaoar ( in diameter) is located in the library in Gislaved, from the Globe. *
Ixion In Greek mythology, Ixion ( ; ) was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly. Family Ixion was the son of Ares, or Leonteus (mythology), Leonteus, or Antion and Perimele, or the notorious evildoer Phlegyas, whose name connotes " ...
( in diameter), a dwarf planet candidate, is located at Technichus, a science center in
Härnösand Härnösand () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 25,012 inhabitants in 2023. It is called "the gate to the High Coast" because of the world heritage landscape just ...
, from the Globe. The sculpture is an orb held by a hand with the arm. This
plutino In astronomy, the plutinos are a dynamical group of trans-Neptunian objects that orbit in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune. This means that for every two orbits a plutino makes, Neptune orbits three times. The dwarf planet Pluto is the la ...
was discovered by a team which included scientists from
Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...
. *
Makemake Makemake ( minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects, with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's moon Iapetus, or 60% that of Pluto. It ...
( in diameter) is located at Slottsskogsobservatoriet, an observatory in
Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, from the Globe. * 'Oumuamua ( in diameter) is placed in the village of Plönninge,
Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Skåne, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Br ...
, from the Globe. * Gonggong ( in diameter) is placed near the Tycho Brahe Observatory in
Oxie Oxie () is a locality and was a city district () in the south-east of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, the city district was merged with Fosie, forming Söder. In 2012, Oxie had a population of 12,453 of the municipality's 307,758. ...
, Malmö Municipality, from the Globe. * Eris ( in diameter) is located at
Umeå Arts Campus Umeå Arts Campus is the name of a former industry area that recently (2009–2012) was rebuilt to house several of the arts educations at Umeå University in Sweden. The arts campus will be an education center for architecture, design and artwor ...
,
Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...
, from the Globe. Made by Theresa Berg, the golden model is inspired by the mythical story of Eris sparking a quarrel between three Greek goddesses with a golden apple bearing the inscription καλλίστῃ (''kallistē'', "to the most beautiful one"). * Sedna ( in diameter), another dwarf planet candidate, is located at Teknikens Hus, a science center in
Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...
, from the Globe. This represents a distance of about ; Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, its distance from the Sun varying between .


Other bodies

* 471926 Jörmungandr a
minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...
in Stockholm. * The
near-Earth Object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun ( perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU). This definition applies to the object's orbit a ...
Eros Eros (, ; ) is the Greek god of love and sex. The Romans referred to him as Cupid or Amor. In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is the child of Aphrodite. He is usually presented as a handsome young ma ...
is located at Mörbyskolan, a school in
Danderyd Municipality Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Stoc ...
(where Mars is located), from the Globe. It was created as a
Valentine's Day Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a Christian martyrs, martyr named Saint Valentine, Valentine, and ...
project in gold, modeled after
Eros Eros (, ; ) is the Greek god of love and sex. The Romans referred to him as Cupid or Amor. In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is the child of Aphrodite. He is usually presented as a handsome young ma ...
, the god of love. The dimensions are ; (). * The
asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
36614 Saltis is located at
Saltsjöbaden Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010. It is on the Baltic Sea coast, deep in the Stockholm Archipelago. History Saltsjöbaden () was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon W ...
's Kunskapsskola, a school near the Stockholm Observatory. The asteroid was discovered by A. Brandeker in 2000, using a telescope at the observatory, and the body was named after the observatory's location, Saltsjöbaden. * The
asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
Vesta is located at Åva gymnasium, a public secondary school in
Täby Täby () was previously a trimunicipal locality, with 76,700 inhabitants in 2024. However, as from 2016, Statistics Sweden has amalgamated this locality with the Stockholm urban area. It is the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Sw ...
. * The asteroid
306367 Nut 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies ...
, a.k.a. 5025 PL for Palomar-Leiden, ( in diameter) is located in a park in
Knivsta Municipality Knivsta Municipality () is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Knivsta, with some 7,100 inhabitants. It is known for being one of the safest municipalities in Sweden ...
, from the Globe. It is not a sculpture but a dot on a map of the System, placed in front of Erik Ståhl's monumental cosmic sculptures. *
Halley's Comet Halley's Comet is the only known List of periodic comets, short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years, though with the majority of recorded apparitions (25 of 30) occurring after ...
is located at
Balthazar Science Center Balthazar Science Center is a Swedish science center located in Västergötland, Skövde. It contains four Halley's comet 3D models, as part of the Sweden Solar System. The Chairman of the Board The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairpe ...
, in
Skövde Skövde () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland, Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central southern Sweden. Skövde is situated around 150 k ...
. Inaugurated on 16 December 2009, there are actually four models of the comet: three placed outdoors, based on schoolchildren's drawings, plus one indoors, consisting of a laser passing through a block of glass. * Comet Swift-Tuttle is placed at Kreativum, a science center in Karlshamn. The comet's orbit is closest to the Globe in inner
Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
and farthest in Karlshamn, away. * The Termination Shock is at the edge of the
heliosphere The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space. In plasma physics terms, it is the cavity formed by the Sun in the surrounding ...
: it is the boundary where the
solar wind The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the Stellar corona, corona. This Plasma (physics), plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy betwee ...
transitions to subsonic velocity. No sculpture currently represents the termination shock, but a foundation for a future sculpture exists at the Institute of Space Physics, from the Globe, in
Kiruna (; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...
, above the
Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the northernmost of the five major circle of latitude, circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern counterpart is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circl ...
.


List of objects

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Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...
, , , , {{cvt, 71 m (233 ft), the disk
110 m (361 ft), incl. the corona , ,
Avicii Arena Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockho ...
, Stockholm , , {{coord, 59, 17, 36.80, N, 18, 04, 59.65, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 19 February 1989 , - , 471926 Jörmungandr , , {{cvt, 1.8, km , , 0.05 mm , , Ion Game Design office, Stockholm , , {{coord, 59, 18, 34.7, N, 18, 04, 21.9, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 23 September 2023 , - , Mercury , , {{cvt, 2.99, km , , 25 cm (9.8 in) , , Stockholm City Museum, Stockholm , , {{coord, 59, 19, 10.8, N, 18, 04, 16.8, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 1998 , - ,
Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...
, , {{cvt, 6.76, km , , 62 cm (24.4 in) , , Vetenskapens hus, Stockholm , , {{coord, 59, 21, 10.38, N, 18, 03, 30.78, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 8 June 2004 , - , Earth and
Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...
, , {{cvt, 8.58, km , , 65 cm (25.6 in) and 18 cm (7.1 in) , ,
Swedish Museum of Natural History The Swedish Museum of Natural History (), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes bac ...
, Stockholm , , {{coord, 59, 22, 08.48, N, 18, 03, 12.34, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , before 2000{{cite web , url=http://www.psych.illinois.edu/~wbrewer/solarmodel.html , title=Tours of Model Solar Systems , publisher=Psych.illinois.edu , accessdate=4 October 2013 , archive-date=24 July 2010 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724064517/http://www.psych.illinois.edu/~wbrewer/solarmodel.html , url-status=dead , - , (433) Eros , , {{cvt, 11, km , , 2.0 mm × 0.7 mm × 0.7 mm , , Mörbyskolan,
Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Sto ...
, , {{coord, 59, 23, 38, N, 18, 02, 41, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 14 February 2000 , - , (36614) Saltis , , {{cvt, 11, km , , < 1 mm , , Kunskapsskolan,
Saltsjöbaden Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010. It is on the Baltic Sea coast, deep in the Stockholm Archipelago. History Saltsjöbaden () was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon W ...
, , {{coord, 59, 16, 21, N, 18, 18, 17, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 14 January 2010 , - ,
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...
, , {{cvt, 11.93, km , , 35 cm (13.8 in) , , Mörby centrum,
Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Sto ...
, , {{coord, 59, 23, 52.58, N, 18, 02, 11.58, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , before 2000 , - ,
4 Vesta Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of . It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta (mytho ...
, , {{cvt, 16.4, km , , 2.6 cm , , Åva gymnasium,
Täby Täby () was previously a trimunicipal locality, with 76,700 inhabitants in 2024. However, as from 2016, Statistics Sweden has amalgamated this locality with the Stockholm urban area. It is the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Sw ...
, , {{coord, 59, 26, 24, N, 18, 03, 47.16, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 6 September 2017 , - ,
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
, , {{cvt, 40.6, km , , 7.3 m (24 ft) , , Stockholm Arlanda Airport , , {{coord, 59, 38, 58.52, N, 17, 55, 50.38, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , before 2000 , - , (306367) Nut (5025 PL) , , {{cvt, 60, km , , 0.2 mm , ,
Knivsta Knivsta is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Knivsta Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 20,133 inhabitants. It is known for being one of the safest areas in Sweden, consistently ranking among the top 5 safest municipalities ...
, , {{coord, 59, 45, 25, N, 17, 45, 57, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , , - ,
Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 tim ...
, , {{cvt, 67.9, km , , 6.1 m (20 ft) , , Celsiustorget,
Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...
, , {{coord, 59, 51, 34, N, 17, 38, 14, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 2010 (only Titan) , - ,
Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a Supercritical fluid, supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or Volatile ( ...
, , {{cvt, 124.8, km , , 2.6 m (8.5 ft) , , Stora magasinet,
Lövstabruk Lövstabruk is a village on a common in the parish of Österlövsta, Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden. In 2010 it had a population of 96, compared to some 1300 at its height during the 18th century. The word ''lövsta'' is derived fro ...
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Haumea Haumea ( minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory, and formally announced in 2005 by a team heade ...
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Borlänge Borlänge () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality which as of 2017 had a total population of 51,604 inhabitants. History Originally Bor ...
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Halley's Comet Halley's Comet is the only known List of periodic comets, short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years, though with the majority of recorded apparitions (25 of 30) occurring after ...
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Balthazar Science Center Balthazar Science Center is a Swedish science center located in Västergötland, Skövde. It contains four Halley's comet 3D models, as part of the Sweden Solar System. The Chairman of the Board The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairpe ...
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Skövde Skövde () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland, Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central southern Sweden. Skövde is situated around 150 k ...
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Neptune Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the List of Solar System objects by size, fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 t ...
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Söderhamn Söderhamn is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Söderhamn Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 11,761 inhabitants in 2010. Sports The biggest local sport is bandy. Broberg/Söderhamn Bandy play in the highest division E ...
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Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of Trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Su ...
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Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( ; ) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and ...
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50000 Quaoar Quaoar ( minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of many icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has an elongated ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of , about half the size of the d ...
, , {{cvt, 340, km , , 6 cm , , Gislaved Library, Gislaved , , {{coord, 57, 17, 46.9, N, 13, 31, 49.8, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 18 November 2017 , - , (28978) Ixion , , {{cvt, 360, km , , 6.5 cm (2.6 in) , , Technichus,
Härnösand Härnösand () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 25,012 inhabitants in 2023. It is called "the gate to the High Coast" because of the world heritage landscape just ...
, , {{coord, 62, 37, 49, N, 17, 56, 12, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 18 April 2002{{cite web , url=http://www.technichus.se/system/visa.asp?HID=803&FID=782&HSID=13958 , title=Technichus' Exhibitions , publisher=Technichus home Page , access-date=10 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814020704/http://www.technichus.se/system/visa.asp?HID=803&FID=782&HSID=13958 , archive-date=14 August 2010 , - , 174567 Varda , , {{cvt, 370, km , , 33 mm , , , Bohusläns museum,
Uddevalla Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...
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109P/Swift-Tuttle 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
comet , , {{cvt, 390, km , , < 1 cm , , Kreativum, Karlshamn , , {{coord, 56, 11, 39, N, 14, 51, 09, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , , - ,
Makemake Makemake ( minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects, with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's moon Iapetus, or 60% that of Pluto. It ...
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Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, , {{coord, 57, 41, 28.3, N, 11, 56, 36.4, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 23 September 2017 , - ,
ʻOumuamua Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Naming of comets#Current system, Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā O ...
, , {{cvt, 440, km , , 0.3 mm , , Halmstad Municipality , , {{coord, 56, 44, 04.8, N, 12, 44, 42.8, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , August 2018 , - , 225088 Gonggong , , {{cvt, 400, km , , 7.5 cm , , Tycho Brahe-observatoriet,
Oxie Oxie () is a locality and was a city district () in the south-east of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, the city district was merged with Fosie, forming Söder. In 2012, Oxie had a population of 12,453 of the municipality's 307,758. ...
, , {{coord, 55, 32, 33.9, N, 13, 05, 04.0, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 23 September 2017 , - , (136199) Eris , , {{cvt, 510, km , , 13 cm (5.1 in) , ,
Umeå Arts Campus Umeå Arts Campus is the name of a former industry area that recently (2009–2012) was rebuilt to house several of the arts educations at Umeå University in Sweden. The arts campus will be an education center for architecture, design and artwor ...
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Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...
, , {{coord, 63, 49, 14.2, N, 20, 16, 34.1, E, region:SE_type:landmark, display=inline , , 6 December 2007{{Cite web, url=http://www.umea.se/4.2aeb902411d30c9e46080003810.html, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929011153/http://www.umea.se/4.2aeb902411d30c9e46080003810.html, url-status=dead, title=Umeå kommun: Umeå får en egen himlakropp, archivedate=29 September 2011 , - , (90377) Sedna , , {{cvt, 810, km , , 10 cm (3.9 in) , , Teknikens Hus,
Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...
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Kiruna (; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...
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File:Stockholm Globe Arena.jpg, The
Avicii Arena Avicii Arena, originally known as the Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as the Ericsson Globe, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (; ), is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockho ...
represents the Sun. The rest of the Solar System is scattered in, and north of, Stockholm. File:Sweden Solar System Mercury.jpg, Mercury in Stockholm File:R-20220918-152511-PD6.jpg, Venus in Stockholm File:Sweden Solar System - NewEarth.jpg, Earth in Stockholm File:Sweden Solar System - NewMoon.jpg, Luna/Moon in Stockholm File:Mars model of Sweden solar system.jpg, Mars in Stockholm File:Sweden Solar System - Jupiter.jpg, Jupiter in Stockholm Arlanda Airport File:Sweden Solar System - Titan.jpg, Titan in Uppsala File:Sweden Solar System - Uranus.jpg, Uranus in Lövstabruk File:Neptune model of Sweden solar system.jpg, Neptune in Söderhamn File:Sweden Solar System - Pluto (closeup).jpg, Pluto in Delsbo File:Bosse Falk Saltis.JPG, Saltis in Saltsjöbaden File:Sculpture of asteroid Vesta.jpg, Asteroid Vesta in Täby File:Sweden Solar System - Ixion.jpg, Ixion in Härnösand File:Sweden Solar System - ʻOumuamua.jpg, ʻOumuamua in Halland File:Sweden Solar System - Eris.jpg, Eris in Umeå File:Sweden Solar System - Sedna 2.JPG, Sedna in Luleå File:Entrance to Swedish Institute of Space Physics.JPG, The foundation for the sculpture of the Termination Shock in front of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna.


See also

{{Portal, Solar System *
Nine Views ''Nine Views'' () is an ambiental installation art, installation in Zagreb, Croatia which, together with the sculpture ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' (''The Grounded Sun''), comprises a scale Solar System model, model of the Solar System. ''Prizemljeno S ...
* Somerset Space Walk


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