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
- Cygnus OB2-8ADeep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB2-9Deep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB7Deep Cut85points
- Cygnus OB9Deep Cut85points
- Cygnus Star CloudDeep Cut85points
- Cygnus XDeep Cut85points
- CZ HydraeDeep Cut85points
- D CentauriDeep Cut85points
- D EridaniDeep Cut85points
- D9Deep Cut85points
- DA 193Deep Cut85points
- DabihDeep Cut85points
- DajiangjunbeiDeep Cut85points
- DalimDeep Cut85points
- DANCe J16081299-2304316Deep Cut85points
- DanfengDeep Cut85points
- Dark Doodad NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Dark Horse NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Dark Wolf NebulaDeep Cut85points
- DarlugalDeep Cut85points
- DB 44Deep Cut85points
- DD MicroscopiiDeep Cut85points
- DdDm 1Deep Cut85points
- DDO 169Deep Cut85points
- DDO 190Deep Cut85points
- DDO 78Deep Cut85points
- DDO 99Deep Cut85points
- DE CVnDeep Cut85points
- DE CVn bDeep Cut85points
- De Mairan's NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Deer Lick GroupDeep Cut85points
- Delaware DiamondDeep Cut85points
- Delorme 1 bDeep Cut85points
- DELS J003836.10-152723.6Deep Cut85points
- Delta AntliaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta ApodisDeep Cut85points
- Delta AraeDeep Cut85points
- Delta AurigaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Delta CaeliDeep Cut85points
- Delta CentauriDeep Cut85points
- Delta CepheiDeep Cut85points
- Delta CetiDeep Cut85points
- Delta CirciniDeep Cut85points
- Delta ColumbaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta CraterisDeep Cut85points
- Delta DelphiniDeep Cut85points
- Delta DoradusDeep Cut85points
- Delta EquuleiDeep Cut85points
- Delta FornacisDeep 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.