A seven-metre Solar Sculpture will light up Greenwich’s Painted Hall

A vast scale model of The Sun will land in Greenwich later this month, as Luke Jerram’s latest model of the solar system fills the Painted Hall.
Mock up of Helios in the Painted Hall (c) Luke Jerram
The artwork measures seven metres in diameter and features 72dpi detailed imagery of the Sun’s surface. At an approximate scale of 1:200 million, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 200km of the Sun’s surface.
It is very dangerous to look at the Sun