Solar System Walk

12:30pm-3:00pm, 8 October

Location:St Kilda Beach

Walk through the solar system without leaving Melbourne!

The St Kilda Solar System Walk is a scale model of our solar system stretching along the foreshore between St Kilda and Port Melbourne.

Created by artists and scientists in 2008, the model is built at a scale of 1:1 billion, so instead of travelling billions of kilometres through space, you can walk it!

At this scale, Neptune is about 4.5 km from the Sun and Pluto about 5.9 km away. Along the way, you’ll explore the planets while enjoying beautiful views of Port Phillip Bay.

A fun way to get outside, explore Melbourne and learn a little about space at the same time.