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
- CQ Ursae MajorisDeep Cut85points
- CR BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Crater 2 DwarfDeep Cut85points
- Crater CloudDeep Cut85points
- Crescent NebulaDeep Cut85points
- CruinlaghDeep Cut85points
- CS CamelopardalisDeep Cut85points
- CS VirginisDeep Cut85points
- CT Cha BDeep Cut85points
- CT ChamaeleontisDeep Cut85points
- CT Chamaeleontis bDeep Cut85points
- CT SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- CTA 1Deep Cut85points
- CTA 102Deep Cut85points
- CTB 37ADeep Cut85points
- CTB 37BDeep Cut85points
- CTD 135Deep Cut85points
- CTQ 327Deep Cut85points
- CTQ 414Deep Cut85points
- CU VirginisDeep Cut85points
- CuancoáDeep Cut85points
- CujamDeep Cut85points
- CuptorDeep Cut85points
- CursaDeep Cut85points
- CustosDeep Cut85points
- CV SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- CVMP 1Deep Cut85points
- CVSO 30Deep Cut85points
- CVSO 30 cDeep Cut85points
- CW LeonisDeep Cut85points
- CW OctantisDeep Cut85points
- CWISE J0506+0738Deep Cut85points
- CWISE J104053.42-355029.7 BaDeep Cut85points
- CWISE J1249+3621Deep Cut85points
- CWISEP J1047+5457Deep Cut85points
- CWISEP J1446−2317Deep Cut85points
- CWISEP J1935-1546Deep Cut85points
- CWNU 4193Deep Cut85points
- CWW 89AbDeep Cut85points
- CX Canis MajorisDeep Cut85points
- CX DraconisDeep Cut85points
- CX330Deep Cut85points
- CXOGC J174528.6-285605Deep Cut85points
- CY BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Cygnus A black holeDeep Cut85points
- Cygnus ArmDeep Cut85points
- Cygnus Molecular Nebula ComplexDeep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB2Deep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB2-12Deep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB2-8Deep 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.