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
- Andromeda Stream ADeep Cut85points
- Andromeda Stream BDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda Stream CDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda Stream DDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda VDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda VIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda VIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XIVDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XIXDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XVDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XVIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XVIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XVIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXIVDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXIXDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXVDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXVIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXVIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXVIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXXDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXXIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXXIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXXIIIDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda XXXVDeep Cut85points
- Angel NebulaDeep Cut85points
- AngetenarDeep Cut85points
- AniaraDeep Cut85points
- AnkaaDeep Cut85points
- AnserDeep Cut85points
- AnskyDeep Cut85points
- Ant NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Antennae GalaxiesDeep Cut85points
- Anticenter shellDeep Cut85points
- Anticenter streamDeep Cut85points
- AntinousDeep Cut85points
- Antlia BDeep Cut85points
- Antlia ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Antlia DwarfDeep Cut85points
- Antlia IIDeep Cut85points
- Antlia supernova remnantDeep Cut85points
- AnunituDeep Cut85points
- AO 0235+164Deep 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.