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
- Bootes SuperclusterDeep Cut85points
- Boötes VDeep Cut85points
- BoRG-58Deep Cut85points
- BosonaDeep Cut85points
- BOSS Great WallDeep Cut85points
- BOSS1441Deep Cut85points
- BoteinDeep Cut85points
- Bow-Tie NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Box NebulaDeep Cut85points
- BP BoötisDeep Cut85points
- BP CirciniDeep Cut85points
- BP TauriDeep Cut85points
- BPM 37093Deep Cut85points
- BQ OctantisDeep Cut85points
- BrachiumDeep Cut85points
- BraheDeep Cut85points
- BranDeep Cut85points
- Brey 21Deep Cut85points
- BRI 1335-0417Deep Cut85points
- BT MonocerotisDeep Cut85points
- BU Canis MinorisDeep Cut85points
- BU CrucisDeep Cut85points
- Bubble NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822)Deep Cut85points
- BubupDeep Cut85points
- BudiaraDeep Cut85points
- Bulb NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Bullet ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Bullet GalaxyDeep Cut85points
- Bullet GroupDeep Cut85points
- BunaDeep Cut85points
- BundaDeep Cut85points
- BuranunDeep Cut85points
- Burbidge's ChainDeep Cut85points
- BuruDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly GalaxiesDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly Nebula (NGC 2346)Deep Cut85points
- Butterfly StarDeep Cut85points
- BV CentauriDeep Cut85points
- BW SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- BW Sculptoris BDeep Cut85points
- BW VulpeculaeDeep Cut85points
- BX AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
- BX BoötisDeep Cut85points
- BX CirciniDeep Cut85points
- BX TrianguliDeep Cut85points
- BX442Deep Cut85points
- BY DraconisDeep Cut85points
- BZ Ursae MajorisDeep 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.