Measure Up the Sky

[Verse 1]
Galio Galli Leigh, look up and take a guess,
Nicolas compare dicose—who’s bigger, who’s the best?
The universe is stretching; distant galaxies recede,
And light from far-off places takes its time to reach what we can see.

[Chorus]
Galio, Nicolas, measure up the sky,
A grain of cosmic dust, a question flying by.
From one bright little planet to the galaxies beyond,
The universe keeps widening—there’s always more to ponder on.

[Verse 2]
Our Sun is one star among the Milky Way’s vast crowd,
A barred spiral galaxy, with billions of stars around.
Earth goes round the Sun; the Moon goes round the Earth,
And sunlight takes about eight minutes to arrive here after birth.

[Chorus]
Galio, Nicolas, measure up the sky,
A grain of cosmic dust, a question flying by.
From one bright little planet to the galaxies beyond,
The universe keeps widening—there’s always more to ponder on.

[Verse 3]
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar neighborhood,
Saturn’s rings are ice and rock, more delicate than they look.
Mars has Olympus Mons, a volcano towering high,
And Venus spins so slowly that its day is longer than its year goes by.

[Bridge]
A black hole’s pull is mighty when you wander close inside,
But far away, its gravity acts like any mass beside.
The cosmic microwave background still fills the distant air,
A cooled-down afterglow from when the early cosmos flared.

[Final Chorus]
Galio, Nicolas, measure up the sky,
Count the planets, trace the stars, let every question fly.
From one bright little planet to the galaxies beyond,
The universe keeps widening—and wonder carries on.

[Outro]
Galio Galli Leigh, Nicolas, look up and see:
The cosmos is enormous, and curiosity is free.