Visualizing the Solar system
An interesting fact about the Solar system is that since the orbits of the planets are nearly coplanar, we can draw a faithful picture of the relative angles of the planets to the sun on a two-dimensional plane.
This surprising fact is what inspired me to create the following visualization of the Solar system, which is updated every time this page is loaded:
While the size of the planets is merely for illustration and is not to scale, the distance of the planets to the sun is accurate on a logarithmic scale and the angles between the planets and the sun correspond exactly to the angles of the night sky.
About the code
Since this project is open-source, the relevant code for this visualization is available here.