![]() Han Solo’s claim to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs This is the distance between Earth and the moon, but not between planets. In “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” Lucas clarified that Han Solo had used a wrong unit. In the 1977 “Star Wars” film, Han Solo used the parsec to boast about his Kessel Run speed. It’s the same as one-thousand million miles. ![]() A parsec is the distance between two objects in space. This means that the distance from Earth to the Moon is about six billion light years from Earth.Īnother measurement that Star Wars uses is the parsec. The distance from Earth to the Moon is approximately a trillion parsecs, a billion light years. For larger distances, one parsec equals about half a million miles. One light year is six trillion miles, or 9.5 trillion kilometers. Light years are a unit of distance that Star Wars fans may be more familiar with. The distances between planets are generally referred to in meters, but some distances were depicted in thousands of kilometers. These units of measurement are consistent throughout the franchise and provide an accurate comparison of distance and speed. The Mile, 1.6 kilometers, and Visvia are each one-third of a parsec, while the Gigameter is one billion meters. ![]() The Salt Pan, 1.2 kilometers, is one eighth of the world’s circumference. The Star Wars galaxy uses metric units for measurement. Han Solo’s claim to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. ![]()
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