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.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

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 ...