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The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in The Force Awakens. Both the original and second Death Star were moon-sized and designed for massive power-projection capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2×10 32 J/s power output blast from their superlasers. [15]
Early drafts of the Star Wars story include references to at least two planets which later evolved into the concept of Alderaan.Star Wars author George Lucas included a planet called Alderaan in early treatments; in The Star Wars (1973), Alderaan is a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy (prefiguring the planet Coruscant which later featured in the films).
The crew realizes that the planet has been destroyed. They follow TIE fighters heading towards a moon. When they realize it's not a moon but the Death Star, it's already too late; they are caught in a tractor beam and forced to land. They manage to disguise themselves as stormtroopers and infiltrate the station.
In an event that sounds more like an episode of 'Star Wars' than one of reality, scientists have discovered evidence of a death star literally ripping a planet apart with its gravity.
All life on the planet is presumed destroyed by the Empire in Star Wars Rebels, with two exceptions: Klik-Klak and his offspring. Primary construction site of the first Death Star. Homeworld of the Geonosians. [60] [61] Hosnian Prime: The Force Awakens: 2015 Film Urban planet and capital of the New Republic. Destroyed by the First Order's ...
Saturn's moon Mimas is known for its uncanny resemblance to the dreaded Death Star in the original "Star Wars" movie. Astronomers said on Wednesday that data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...
Despite not really looking anything like the doomed Death Star – a giant planet-destroying space station that is twice blown up in the original Star Wars trilogy – the name has stuck.
Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon / ˈ f eɪ. ə θ ən / or Phaëton / ˈ f eɪ. ə t ən /; from Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]) is a hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the ...