Name a named object in space that's bigger than Earth's Moon (like Jupiter) - Krillion Answers 2026-11-11

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

47 CamelopardalisDeep Cut85points
47 CapricorniDeep Cut85points
47 CassiopeiaeDeep Cut85points
47 CetiDeep Cut85points
47 CygniDeep Cut85points
47 EridaniDeep Cut85points
47 GeminorumDeep Cut85points
47 HerculisDeep Cut85points
47 HydraeDeep Cut85points
47 LibraeDeep Cut85points
47 OphiuchiDeep Cut85points
47 Ophiuchi BDeep Cut85points
47 PisciumDeep Cut85points
47 SerpentisDeep Cut85points
47 TauriDeep Cut85points
47 TucanaeDeep Cut85points
47 UMa bDeep Cut85points
47 UMa cDeep Cut85points
47 UMa dDeep Cut85points
48 CassiopeiaeDeep Cut85points
48 CetiDeep Cut85points
48 CygniDeep Cut85points
48 DraconisDeep Cut85points
48 GeminorumDeep Cut85points
48 HerculisDeep Cut85points
48 HydraeDeep Cut85points
48 LeonisDeep Cut85points
48 Leonis MinorisDeep Cut85points
48 LibraeDeep Cut85points
48 PerseiDeep Cut85points
48 PisciumDeep Cut85points
48 TauriDeep Cut85points
48 VirginisDeep Cut85points
49 AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
49 AquariiDeep Cut85points
49 ArietisDeep Cut85points
49 AurigaeDeep Cut85points
49 CamelopardalisDeep Cut85points
49 CancriDeep Cut85points
49 CassiopeiaeDeep Cut85points
49 CetiDeep Cut85points
49 CygniDeep Cut85points
49 DraconisDeep Cut85points
49 GeminorumDeep Cut85points
49 HerculisDeep Cut85points
49 LeonisDeep Cut85points
49 LibraeDeep Cut85points
49 OrionisDeep Cut85points
49 PerseiDeep Cut85points
49 PisciumDeep 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.