Krillion prompt · October 15, 2026
Name a type of astronomical object found in space (like an asteroid)
Krillion accepted 725 answers for this prompt in Dive #92. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 725 accepted answers, this prompt is close to a typical Krillion prompt (about 583).
- 670 answers (92%) are Deep Cuts and 41 are Rare, while 8 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Nova +60 Pulsar +60 Quasar +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
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.
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
- Binary trans-Neptunian object
- Bipolar nebula
- Bipolar outflow
- BL Herculis variable
- BL Lac object
- Black hole X-ray binary
- Black widow pulsar
- Blazar
- Blue blob
- Blue compact dwarf galaxy
- Blue globular cluster
- Blue hypergiant
- Blue large-amplitude pulsator
- Blue nugget
- Blue straggler
- Blue supergiant
- Blueberry galaxy
- Bok globule
- Born-again star
- Bp star
- Bright giant
- Brightest cluster galaxy
- Broad-lined Type Ic supernova
- BX Circini variable
- BY Draconis variable
- BzK galaxy
- C-type asteroid
- Calcium-rich supernova
- Captured moon
- Carbon planet
- Carbon star
- Cataclysmic variable
- Catastrophically evaporating planet
- cD galaxy
- CEMP star
- Centaur
- Central compact object
- Central massive object
- Cepheid variable
- CH star
- Changing-look quasar
- Chemically peculiar star
- Chiron-type comet
- Chondrite
- Chthonian planet
- Circumbinary planet
- Circumplanetary disk
- Circumstellar disk
- Circumstellar envelope
- Circumtriple planet
- Cis-Neptunian object
- Classical Cepheid
- Close binary
- CN star
- Co-orbital moon
- Cold Jupiter
- Cold Neptune
- Colliding-wind binary
- Comet fragment
- Comet group
- Cometary globule
- Compact galaxy
- Compact group of galaxies
- Compact object
- Contact binary
- Contact binary star
- Cool subdwarf
- Core-collapse supernova
- Cubewano
- Cybele asteroid
- D-type asteroid
- DA white dwarf
- Damocloid
- Damped Lyman-alpha system
- Dark comet
- Dark galaxy
- Dark globular cluster
- Dark matter halo
- Dark nebula
- DB white dwarf
- DC white dwarf
- Dead disk galaxy
- Debris disk
- Decretion disk
- Delta Scuti variable
- Dense core
- Detached binary
- Detached object
- Diffuse nebula
- Direct collapse black hole
- Disc galaxy
- Disrupted planet
- Double periodic variable
- Double planet
- Double pulsar
- Double white dwarf
- DQ white dwarf
- Dwarf elliptical galaxy
- Dwarf irregular galaxy
- Dwarf nova
- Dwarf spheroidal galaxy
- Dwarf spiral galaxy
- Dwarf-planet moon
- DY Persei variable
- DZ white dwarf
- E-type asteroid
- Early-type star
- Earth co-orbital asteroid
- Earth trojan
- Earth-crossing asteroid
- Eccentric Jupiter
- Eclipsing binary
- Electron-capture supernova
- Elliptical comet
- Embedded cluster
- Emission nebula
- Emission-line galaxy
- Emission-line star
- Encke-type comet
- ER Ursae Majoris variable
- Eruptive variable
- Evaporating gaseous globule
- Evolved star
- EX Lupi variable
- Exo-Io
- Exoasteroid
- Exocomet
- Exomoon
- Exoplanetary ring
- Exozodiacal dust
- Extended green object
- Extinct comet
- Extragalactic planet
- Extragalactic star
- Extreme helium star
- Extreme trans-Neptunian object
- Extremely low-mass white dwarf
- Extremely red object
- Extrinsic variable
- Eyeball planet
- F-type asteroid
- F-type bright giant
- F-type giant star
- F-type main-sequence star
- F-type subgiant star
- Failed supernova
- Faint blue galaxy
- Fanaroff–Riley galaxy
- Fast blue optical transient
- Fast nova
- Fast radio burst
- Field galaxy
- Field star
- FK Comae Berenices variable
- Flare star
- Flat-spectrum radio quasar
- Flocculent spiral galaxy
- Fossil group
- FS Canis Majoris variable
- FU Orionis star
- G-type asteroid
- G-type bright giant
- G-type subdwarf
- G-type subgiant star
- G-type supergiant
- Galactic bar
- Galactic bulge
- Galactic corona
- Galactic disc
- Galactic halo
- Galactic nucleus
- Galaxy filament
- Galaxy wall
- Gamma Cassiopeiae variable
- Gamma Doradus variable
- Gamma-ray burst
- Gamma-ray pulsar
- Gap transient
- Giant elliptical galaxy
- Giant molecular cloud
- Giant planet
- Giant radio galaxy
- Giant star
- Globular cluster
- Grand design spiral galaxy
- Gravitational lens
- Great comet
- Green bean galaxy
- Griqua asteroid
- GW Virginis variable
- H I region
- H II galaxy
- H II region
- Halley-type comet
- Halo star
- Heartbeat star
- Heavy-metal subdwarf
- Helium planet
- Helium star
- Helium-strong star
- Helium-weak star
- Herbig Ae/Be star
- Herbig–Haro object
- High-amplitude Delta Scuti variable
- High-mass X-ray binary
- High-velocity cloud
- High-velocity star
- Hilda asteroid
- Hills cloud
- Hoag-type galaxy
- Horizontal-branch star
- Hot dust-obscured galaxy
- Hot Jupiter
- Hot Neptune
- Hot subdwarf
- Hungaria asteroid
- Hycean planet
- Hydrogen-deficient star
- Hyperbolic comet
- Hypercompact stellar system
- Hypergalaxy
- Hypergiant
- Hypernova
- Ice giant
- Ice planet
- Icy moon
- Inferior planet
- Infrared cirrus
- Infrared dark cloud
- Inner main-belt asteroid
- Inner moon
- Integrated flux nebula
- Interacting binary
- Intergalactic star
- Intermediate polar
- Intermediate spiral galaxy
- Intermediate-luminosity red transient
- Intermediate-mass black hole
- Intermediate-mass X-ray binary
- Interplanetary dust cloud
- Interstellar asteroid
- Interstellar comet
- Interstellar dust
- Interstellar filament
- Interstellar object
- Interstellar shell
- Intrinsic variable
- Iron meteorite
- Iron planet
- Irregular moon
- Irregular spiral galaxy
- Irregular variable
- J-type asteroid
- Jellyfish galaxy
- Jupiter analog
- Jupiter trojan
- Jupiter-crossing minor planet
- Jupiter-family comet
- Jupiter-mass binary object
- K-type asteroid
- K-type bright giant
- K-type subdwarf
- K-type subgiant star
- K-type supergiant
- Kilonova
- Kuiper belt object
- L dwarf
- L-type asteroid
- Lambda Boötis star
- Lambda Eridani variable
- Large quasar group
- Late-type star
- Lava planet
- Lazarus comet
- Lead star
- Lenticular galaxy
- LINER galaxy
- Little red dot
- Long gamma-ray burst
- Long secondary period variable
- Long-period comet
- Long-period radio transient
- Long-period variable
- Low-mass star
- Low-mass X-ray binary
- Low-surface-brightness galaxy
- Luminous blue variable
- Luminous infrared galaxy
- Luminous red nova
- Lyman-alpha blob
- Lyman-alpha emitter
- Lyman-break galaxy
- M-type asteroid
- M-type bright giant
- M-type giant
- M-type subdwarf
- Magellanic spiral
- Magnetar
- Magnetic cataclysmic variable
- Main-belt asteroid
- Manx comet
- Markarian galaxy
- Mars trojan
- Mars-crossing asteroid
- Massive compact halo object
- Massive star
- Mega-Earth
- Mercury-crossing asteroid
- Mercury-manganese star
- Mesoplanet
- Metal-poor star
- Meteoroid stream
- Micrometeoroid
- Micronova
- Microquasar
- Millisecond pulsar
- Mini-Neptune
- Minor planet
- Minor-planet moon
- Mira variable
- Molecular cloud
- Moonlet
- Moving group
- MS-type star
- N galaxy
- Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy
- Near-Earth asteroid
- Near-Earth comet
- Near-Earth object
- Near-parabolic comet
- Neptune trojan
- Neutron star X-ray binary
- Nova remnant
- Nova-like variable
- Nuclear star cluster
- O-type asteroid
- O-type bright giant
- O-type giant star
- O-type main-sequence star
- O-type subgiant star
- O-type supergiant
- OB association
- OB star
- Ocean planet
- Odd radio circle
- Ofpe/WN9 star
- OH/IR star
- Oort cloud object
- Open cluster
- Open cluster family
- Open cluster remnant
- Optical pulsar
- Optically violent variable quasar
- Orange dwarf
- Orange giant
- Orion variable
- Outer main-belt asteroid
- Outsize black hole galaxy
- P Cygni star
- P-type asteroid
- Pair-instability supernova
- Pallasite
- Pea galaxy
- Peculiar galaxy
- Periodic comet
- Peter Pan disk
- PG 1159 star
- Phocaea asteroid
- Photodissociation region
- Planetary nebula
- Planetary transit variable
- Planetary-mass moon
- Planetary-mass object
- Planetesimal
- Plutino
- Plutoid
- Polar
- Polar-ring galaxy
- Population I star
- Population II star
- Population III star
- Post-AGB star
- Post-common-envelope binary
- Potentially hazardous asteroid
- Potentially hazardous object
- Pre-main-sequence star
- Primordial black hole
- Prolate rotator galaxy
- Propeller moon
- Protocluster
- Protogalaxy
- Protoplanet
- Protoplanetary disk
- Protoplanetary nebula
- Protostar
- Puffy planet
- Pulsar planet
- Pulsar wind nebula
- Pulsating variable
- Pulsating white dwarf
- Pulsational pair-instability supernova
- Pure-disc galaxy
- PV Telescopii variable
- Q-type asteroid
- Quadruple star system
- Quasi-Hilda comet
- Quasi-periodic eruption
- Quasi-satellite
- Quasi-star
- Quiescent galaxy
- R Coronae Borealis variable
- R-type asteroid
- Radio galaxy
- Radio halo
- Radio lobe
- Radio pulsar
- Radio relic
- Radio star
- Radio-loud quasar
- Radio-quiet neutron star
- Radio-quiet quasar
- Rapidly oscillating Ap star
- Recurrent nova
- Red clump star
- Red hypergiant
- Red nugget
- Red quasar
- Red spiral galaxy
- Red supergiant
- Redback pulsar
- Reflection binary
- Reflection nebula
- Regular moon
- Reionization-limited H I cloud
- Resonant trans-Neptunian object
- Ring galaxy
- Rogue black hole
- Rotating ellipsoidal variable
- Rotating radio transient
- Rotating variable
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
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Dwarf planet
- Nebula
- Planetary system
- Supernova
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Asteroid
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Meteoroid
- Moon
- Planet
- Star
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