DAILY NO. 9 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 9, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 580291667× as big as the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 m.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 2.8× as big as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the International Space Station measures 109 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an American football field at 109.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the International Space Station when it sits beside an American football field — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.6× as big as the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Apollo Lunar Module measures 6.9 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an adult giraffe at 5.2 m.
It stood about as tall as a two-storey house, and only the top half ever came back.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Apollo Lunar Module when it sits beside an adult giraffe — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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