Something you can spot with a backyard telescope
Our answer book holds 55 answers to “Something you can spot with a backyard telescope”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. Most people go straight for Moon, Saturn or Jupiter, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 14 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
The headline names go fast here, so it pays to remember what was catalogued long after them. You will find it in stage 8, “Planet Hopping”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Moon
- Saturn
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Venus
- Saturn's rings
- Craters on the Moon
- Jupiter's moons
- Orion Nebula
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Pleiades
- Sunspots
- Mercury
- Uranus
- Neptune
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 55 we know. They score the least. The other 40, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 55 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 9 |
| THE CROWD | 9 |
| SOME | 12 |
| A FEW | 11 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 10 |
| ONLY YOU | 4 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.