DAILY NO. 27 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 27, 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: 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 Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 795828571× as big as the reference, a road bicycle at 1.8 m.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside a road bicycle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope measures 13.1 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, an American school bus at 10.7 m.
Hubble is roughly the size of a school bus, which is exactly what the Shuttle’s cargo bay was built to hold.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Hubble Space Telescope when it sits beside an American school bus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Apollo Lunar Module measures 6.9 m (height), which is 3.4× as big as the reference, a US interior door at 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 a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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