A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world’s largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to help people understand the enormity of space.
The model is spread across Otford, near Sevenoaks, with representations of the Sun and planets placed around the parish and stretching into nearby woodland.
Simon Featherstone, co-chair of the Otford Society, said the project was designed to allow visitors to “visualise the sheer vastness of our solar system”.
Each planet is represented by a marker, with the Sun at the centre on the recreation ground and Pluto positioned about a mile away, reflecting distances at a precise scale.