DAILY NO. 18 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five space Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 9, 2026 puzzle ran from the Hubble Space Telescope at 13.1 m to the Sun at 1,392,700 km — 8 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 1: the Sun is 3979142857× as big as a laptop computer.
Answer: The Sun — 1,392,700 km. The Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 3979142857× as big as the reference, a laptop computer at 35 cm.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside a laptop computer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn V Rocket — 110.6 m. A Saturn V rocket measures 110.6 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a Starship launch stack at 121 m.
Saturn V stood taller than the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a Saturn V rocket when it sits beside a Starship launch stack — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: International Space Station — 109 m. The International Space Station measures 109 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to compress the International Space Station when it sits beside a Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: The Moon — 3,474.8 km. The Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope — 13.1 m. 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.
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