How theStar WarsPlanets Stack Up Against Our Own

galaxy far far aside often seem much more exciting than this one : fascist empire predominate by ancient sorcery cult , giant space slugs , dateless disposable droids . But when you get down to it , many of the planets in the Star Wars universe are n’t so different from our own .

Chris Jones wanted to see how the planet and Sun Myung Moon featured in the original Star Wars trilogy stack up against real planet in this coltsfoot . Turns out , many of them are quite corresponding in size to place in our solar organisation . Endor is Mercury after a monumental world chilling effort , Hoth is Mars before all the water evaporate , and Bespin is a flatulency giant not so different in size from our Saturn . Yavin Prime seems to be in a class of its own , though — who know — maybe it ’s similar to one of thosefabled brown dwarf lurking in the far reaches of our solar system .

Alderaan , a planetary planet with plant living , raft and oceans , is ominously Earth - like , with a diam of 12,500 kilometre compare with our Blue Marble ’s 12,742 km . Fortunately , the citizens of Earth do n’t have to worry about a Death Star being built anytime soon — that special artillery of mass destruction isjust too damn expensive .

Starship Test 9