Sweden may not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of space research, but it does lead the world in one important astronomical area: it possesses the world's biggest scale model of the solar system. Emanating from Stockholm's Ericsson Dome, the world's biggest hemispherical building, the model travels 950 kilometers to Kiruna, where the notion of Termination Shock - the end of the solar system - is commemorated.
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