Krillion Recorded answers
30,029 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the smallest scale outward rather than trying to recall a single famous object. List the categories that can satisfy the size test — planets, natural satellites, stars, nebulae, clusters, galaxies — and then ask which members of each you can actually name with confidence. Anything with a catalogue number or a Bayer-style letter counts, so you are not restricted to household names; star catalogues alone supply thousands of valid answers. Weigh your options by how distinctive they are, not by how impressive they sound: a well-known giant is safe but widely shared, while an obscure survey object is harder to verify but far less crowded. Before committing, sanity-check the diameter against the lunar baseline so you do not lose the point on a technicality.
Get a hint
Begin at the scale you can picture without effort and then widen the frame, because the answer does not have to be something famous, only something real and large enough to be measured.
A little more
Then think in terms of catalogues, since most qualifying objects are not famous at all: they carry numbers, Greek letters or survey codes instead of memorable names.
One step further
Finally stretch the scale to its extremes, because the biggest candidates can be whole galaxies or gas clouds spanning many times the width of any planet, and those uncommon answers tend to be worth more.
Reveal answers 30,029
- IRAS 06076−2139Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 07598+6508Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 08544−4431Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 09104+4109Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 10565+2448Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 12063−6259Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 13208−6020Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 13218+0552Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 13349+2438Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 14026+4341Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 14348−1447Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 14394+5332Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 15206+3342Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 16293-2422Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 17020+4544Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 17163−3907Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 17208−0014Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 17423−1755Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 18162−2048Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 18357−0604Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 18580+6527Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 19024+0044Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 19475+3119Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 20068+4051Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 20181-2244Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 20324+4057Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 20414−1651Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 22036+5306Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 23304+6147Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 23389+0300Deep Cut85points
- IRAS F01364−1042Deep Cut85points
- IRAS F11119+3257Deep Cut85points
- IRAS F12032+1707Deep Cut85points
- IRC -10414Deep Cut85points
- IRC -30303Deep Cut85points
- IRC -30312Deep Cut85points
- IRC +10420Deep Cut85points
- IRC +60342Deep Cut85points
- IRC 0218Deep Cut85points
- IrenaDeep Cut85points
- Iris NebulaDeep Cut85points
- IsagelDeep Cut85points
- ISCS J143809+341419Deep Cut85points
- IsliDeep Cut85points
- ISOHDFS 27Deep Cut85points
- ITG 15BDeep Cut85points
- ItondaDeep Cut85points
- IU AurigaeDeep Cut85points
- IV CepheiDeep Cut85points
- IW AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal held 30,029 recorded answers, and the distribution is unusually lopsided: a single entry at 100 points, 29,941 sitting at 85, and 72 scraping 60. That shape tells you most solvers converged on the same safe territory. The 85-point band is dominated by numbered stellar designations such as 1 Aquarii or 10 Andromedae — individually correct, trivially generated, and therefore shared by thousands of players, which caps their value. Bare catalogue codes behave the same way: 0313-192 and 037-B327 are perfectly valid picks, yet they still landed at 85, because hundreds of players reached for the same lists. The lone 100-point answer, Hanny's Voorwerp, is a different animal — a genuinely distinctive, almost quirky object that few would name unprompted, and the scoring rewarded that originality. Answers that fell to 60 were presumably vaguer or even more heavily repeated. The lesson: correctness gets you into the 85-point band, but only a memorable, unexpected object breaks past it.