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
- MOA-2022-BLG-249LDeep Cut85points
- MOA-2022-BLG-249L bDeep Cut85points
- MOA-9y-5919LDeep Cut85points
- MOA-9y-770LDeep Cut85points
- MOA-bin-1LDeep Cut85points
- MOA-bin-1L bDeep Cut85points
- MOA-bin-29Deep Cut85points
- MOA-bin-29 bDeep Cut85points
- MOA-bin-29LbDeep Cut85points
- MoldoveanuDeep Cut85points
- MoM-BH*-1Deep Cut85points
- MoM-z14Deep Cut85points
- MönchDeep Cut85points
- Monkey Head NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Monoceros OB1Deep Cut85points
- Monoceros R1Deep Cut85points
- Monoceros R2Deep Cut85points
- Monoceros RingDeep Cut85points
- Monogem RingDeep Cut85points
- MontunoDeep Cut85points
- MoravaDeep Cut85points
- MoriahDeep Cut85points
- MothDeep Cut85points
- Moth Wing ClusterDeep Cut85points
- MothallahDeep Cut85points
- MothraDeep Cut85points
- MouhounDeep Cut85points
- MP MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- MpingoDeep Cut85points
- MR 2251-178Deep Cut85points
- MR 93Deep Cut85points
- MRC 0051-097Deep Cut85points
- MRC 0316-257Deep Cut85points
- MRC 0406-244Deep Cut85points
- MRC 2011-298Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 1044Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 1310Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 142Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 1501Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 202Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 290Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 374Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 382Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 486Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 493Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 50Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 590Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 6Deep Cut85points
- Mrk 704Deep Cut85points
- MS 0011.7+0837Deep 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.