Name a type of astronomical object found in space (like an asteroid)
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Asteroid
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Meteoroid
- Moon
- Planet
- Star
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Dwarf planet
- Nebula
- Planetary system
- Supernova
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Asteroid belt
- Barred spiral galaxy
- Binary star
- Blue giant
- Brown dwarf
- Cosmic void
- Dwarf galaxy
- Earth analog
- Elliptical galaxy
- Exoplanet
- Galaxy cluster
- Galaxy group
- Gas giant
- Habitable planet
- Interacting galaxy
- Interplanetary dust particle
- Irregular galaxy
- Kuiper belt
- Main-sequence star
- Minimoon
- Neutron star
- Nova
- Oort cloud
- Pulsar
- Quasar
- Red dwarf
- Red giant
- Ring system
- Rogue planet
- Spiral galaxy
- Star cluster
- Star system
- Star-forming region
- Stellar black hole
- Supergiant
- Supermassive black hole
- Supernova remnant
- Terrestrial planet
- Variable star
- White dwarf
- Yellow dwarf
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- 1:3 resonant TNO
- 2:5 resonant TNO
- 3:5 resonant TNO
- 4:7 resonant TNO
- A-type asteroid
- A-type bright giant
- A-type main-sequence star
- A-type subgiant star
- Accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar
- Accretion disk
- Achondrite
- Active asteroid
- Active galactic nucleus
- Algol variable
- Alinda asteroid
- Alpha Cygni variable
- Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable
- AM Canum Venaticorum star
- Am star
- Ambiguous nuclear transient
- Amor asteroid
- Anemic galaxy
- Anomalous Cepheid
- Anomalous X-ray pulsar
- Ap star
- Apollo asteroid
- AR Lacertae variable
- Arjuna asteroid
- Asteroid family
- Asteroid pair
- Astrometric binary
- Astrophysical jet
- Astrophysical maser
- Asymptotic giant branch star
- Aten asteroid
- Atira asteroid
- Atoll source
- B-type asteroid
- B-type bright giant
- B-type giant star
- B-type main-sequence star
- B-type subgiant star
- B-type supergiant
- B[e] star
- Background asteroid
- Backward galaxy
- Barium star
- Barred irregular galaxy
- Barred lenticular galaxy
- Be star
- Be/X-ray binary
- Beta Cephei variable
- Beta Lyrae variable
- Binary asteroid
- Binary black hole
- Binary galaxy
- Binary neutron star
- Binary pulsar
- Binary quasar
- Binary system
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Hypervelocity star
One was flung from the galactic centre at 1,755 km per second.
- Shepherd moon
Saturn's shepherd moons herd ring particles into sharp edges.