EVER wanted to walk amongst the planets in our solar system? Well, now you can.

'Our Place in Space' is heading to Liverpool - it's a citywide trail that lasts for more than eight kilometres.

The trail is around five miles long and spaced out (pardon the pun) to reflect the makeup of the solar system.

This exhibition has visited Belfast and Cambridge, where it has attracted more than 300,000 visitors so far.

Liverpool is to host the trail from October 14 until November 6.

The citywide exhibition is a scale model of our solar system - at a scale of 591,000,000:1.

With this scale, the Sun is 2.35 metres across, the Earth is 2.2 centimetres, and Pluto is barely four millimetres.

The trail has been created by artist Oliver Jeffers, astrophysicist Professor Stephen Smartt and a creative team led by 'Nerve Centre'.

Oliver Jeffers said: "For centuries, we’ve defined ourselves by who we are and who we’re not. Which side we choose, on what ground we stand, who and what we fight for.

"But with distance comes perspective – and what happens to our perspective on everything when we look back at Earth from space?

"'Our Place in Space' is a playful experiment that asks: What is the difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’?"

'Our Place in Space' will touch down in Liverpool on October 14, and it begins on Church Street, running down to Otterspool.