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
- Lambda OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda Orionis ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Lambda Orionis RingDeep Cut85points
- Lambda PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda PerseiDeep Cut85points
- Lambda PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda Piscis AustriniDeep Cut85points
- Lambda PisciumDeep Cut85points
- Lambda PyxidisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda TauriDeep Cut85points
- Lambda TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Lambda Ursae MinorisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda1 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda1 PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda1 SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda1 TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Lambda2 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda2 PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda2 SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Lambda2 TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Lamost 1Deep Cut85points
- LAMOST J112456.61+453531.3Deep Cut85points
- Lang-ExsterDeep Cut85points
- Laniakea SuperclusterDeep Cut85points
- LarawagDeep Cut85points
- Large Molecule HeimatDeep Cut85points
- Large Sagittarius Star CloudDeep Cut85points
- LB-1Deep Cut85points
- LBG-2377Deep Cut85points
- LBN 114.55+00.22Deep Cut85points
- LBN 251Deep Cut85points
- LBQS 1009-0252Deep Cut85points
- LBQS 1429-008Deep Cut85points
- LBV 1806-20Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1010Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1020Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1066Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1073Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1083Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1105Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1109Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1139Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1141Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1142Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1143Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1150Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1151Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1153Deep Cut85points
- LDN 1154Deep 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.