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The Solar System on a square-root scale. The point of this representation is to have on the same scale both the size of objets and some of the distances between them.

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This picture shows all known objects of the Solar System that are bigger than Ceres (included) and closer to the Sun than Neptune (included) is, plus the asteroid belt and the A and B rings of Saturn. The axis are numbered in astronomical units (AU) and million kilometers (Gm).

In this picture, the square-root scale isn't continuously applied to all the represented space like on a map. Instead it is applied separately to each of the lengths that are shown to scale, namely:

Distances other than orbiter–orbitee are meaningless. The alignment of objects is arbitrary. Colors were not computed seriously.

The square root function applies to length ratios, which allows for such readings as:

The pictures are under license CC-BY.