The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ORRERY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ORRERY
- Unknown to mathematicians, supporting awful 9 in astronomical model
- Model of spheres, or about railway termini
- About to fill up HGV that fails to start – it turns like clockwork
- Lorry, not large, carrying Queen’s clockwork model
- Satyr erroneously holds such a heavenly model the wrong way
- Turning model truck away from its top and carrying on
- Fixing error by end of day in clockwork model of solar system
- Astronomer’s model in error — after switching two bits, okay finally
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The straight part
We know that "Model of spheres" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case model of spheres = orrery.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ORRERY mean?
ORRERY noun- A clockwork model of any given solar system.