Could planets from Star Wars really exist?
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Scientists with PhDs in atmospheric physics and astrophysics examine which planets in the Star Wars universe could really exist!
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Footage from:
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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You forgot Salucamai from Episode III. :c
Other than that glaring error, this is a great video and I loved it. :3
A glaring omission from me! I also didn't include a few other fringe candidates such as Polis Massa but ignoring a planet proper is a dreadful mistake from me
Simon Clark I figured no Polis Massa because it's more of an asteroid more than a planet. Also I didn't mean to sound rude. Great video. :3
There are others: Fondor, Dantooine, Ryloth (although the first two only appear in the KOTOR games, they're referenced here and there. Ryloth, the Twi'Lek homeworld, appeared in Rebels IIRC).
Vandross01 also, kessel
This is just for the movies though. There are double this amount in the books and tv shows.
"Can Alderaan exist?" yeah but not for long
Brother Kenobii
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*Death Star Intensifies*
😂👍🏾
_pewpew intensifies_
Too soon? Um. Nope, we're good.
Coruscant is known to have major climate control tech, so yeah, dealing with global warming is well within its capabilities.
So that's why its air doesn't look like that of New Dehli and Bejing
But If there are no forests to produce oxygen and trilions of cars,factories ect what would they breath?!
Maery the Greek I mean, some ships could be carrying shipments of oxygen tanks or something. It’s dumb, but works out (imo).
@@doubleoof7907 It stsnds out,for a sci-fi eutopia,lol
But it's still a fucking one trillion.
China×1000.
It would be more of a dystopia in real life!
@@maerythegreek9008 There's really no way to imagine the scientific advances of a type 2 civilization that has existed as a Galactic government for ATLEAST 40,000 years. You just can't, the way their tech works or their capabilities are just space magic to us
Did you know: Darth Vader canonically has a castle on mustafar, being his main residence.
@FizZeld Because it's the place where he suffered the most. On the other hand that's the actual reason Vader built his castle on Mustafar: it strengthens his dark side.
@@Ambar42 I wonder if Vader ever sent out a search party to find his lost legs and his wang 😆
@@philingrouille7198 I guess they're burnt to ashes but nice thought. :'D
Mustafa is the one who died right? Am I in the right movie?
He still has a wang
Simon: "Mustafar resembles the Earth in the Hadean period..."
Literally no one:
Me: "...Hadean Christensen?"
_Hades_ Christensen
I get the joke, but seriously, who doesn't want to see Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader in the Kenobi show?
Literally laughed out loud at “A New Hope II: Electric Boogaloo”
Same
That's not wrong though. Too bad instead of jumping off into something new or re treading the hero's journey they let someone take a massive shit on stage and call it a movie. Even the Gary Stue female lead could have become something interesting to more than just the politically correct police.
Reminds Grian, but this video is older.
It's sad cause they could've slapped Star Wars on practically any movie and it would have succeeded. I don't know why they didn't take some chances on a real story.
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coruscant is most definitely doing some major geo engineering. there is basically no plant life left on that planet, it's entire surface is covered layers upon layers upon layers of cities. honestly, the pollution / heating problem is secondary to the ability of the city to support itself on top the older cities imo.
How they breathe tf
Read Fundation, a SF book by Isaac Asimov and you will see how a city-planet work. That book it is same like Star Wars on quality
The biggest problem with Corusant is how low the population is. 1 trillion is ridiculously small for a city the size of an entire planet.
Extremely easy !
Convert all heat into eletric energy or other forms of energy !
Convert all pollution into breathable air.
Why would think thats so hard ?
@@GeraltofRivia22 my head cannon for why the population is so low is that they don't count certian species the same as others(like some species are just seen as lesser, so one of them only counts as a fraction of a person or some species have a hive mind and thus are considered one person).
That and/or other portions of the planet not having as many people as we see in the area around the Jedi temple.
But even with that, the population still seems a bit low.
The Ewoks don't live on Endor. They inhabit the Forest Moon of Endor.
Well the planet, moon and system are all called Endor, so technically they do live on Endor.
Brayden Linderman yeah
"Forest Moon of Endor".... is that the Forest Moon of "Endor" or the Forest "Moon of Endor"?
@@TheOJDrinker both. the planet and moon are endor
Hush
12:49 "The whole planet is flat"
Flatearthers: *"Ah victory"*
Yeaaah
what about Naboo, it has water all the way through the core?
Right
I always interpreted the "core" to mean further underground passageways that nobody else had ever gone deeper than, and it would be called a core colloquially.
@SciFyerGaming well actually, there is a known planet in our galaxy that is shown to be almost 100% water to the core, then again there is a planet with such a gravitational pull that it has Ice even when it's as close to the sun as venus or mercury
yeah, the earth has water that covers half the planet to the bottom until it hits the steaming hot molten magma
@@JacketCK what planet
I feel like you glossed over one glaring detail involving Naboo. The entire planet is like a porous sponge with a vast ocean network called "The Abyss", when Obi Wan, Jar-jar, and Qui-Gon travel through the planet core in Ep 1, they are literally using a submersible to dive THROUGH the planet and come out the other end.
I really don't think that's feasible in real life.
Ah, quite right! I may have to make another video about that one - I feel it needs some simulations to be run testing the premise!
The webcomic Darths & Droids takes some stabs at it, for example in #150.
FN01701..... The issue is that with our current technology, yes, they would have been destroyed. This is Star Wars though with shield technology and different materials that are stronger than anything we have on Earth. Also, just because the laws of pressure work on this world, it does not mean that they are universal. They are only law with what we can measure and see. It does not mean that they would also be subject on planet in other galaxies or solar systems.
especially if you consider that without a molten core like earth, it would have no magnetic field protecting it, so it would lose most if not all of it's atmosphere just like mars.
Richard Benjamin - It wouldn't necessarily lose its atmosphere. There's a great example for a planet with an atmosphere that puts Earth's wimpy excuse of an atmosphere to shame, even though it has no intrinsic magnetic field. This magnificent specimen is also sitting much closer to its host star than Earth does. And the best thing about it - it's visible to the naked eye in night sky and so bright, that its reflected light can even cast shadows...
You guessed it, it's Venus. A suitable ionosphere in combination with a low activity host star might make that quite possible.
I like how for Alderaan's mention it just gets blown up while all the other ones get nice panning shots.
yea wtf, plenty of footage in SW:TOR
Was waiting for this comment lmao
It's not that the movies have that many shots of Alderaan not being blown. Besides, it's the most recognizable image of the planet anyway.
Why you hating on the wookies just because their planet is possible but rare(er)?
I'm actually curious as to weather having one constant season would actually be consistent to an ecology that appears to be so similar to Earth.
@@rayanderson5797 it would basically be spring or summer year round in the equator, while the north and south pole would most likely be in a permanent Autumn or mild Winter
@@rayanderson5797 weather in equatorial regions on Earth are pretty consistent throughout the year.
@@JacketCKI can't even begin to imagine cold equatorial climates as a reality. Although real climates without change exist on earth, they are all equatorial forests.
This is one of the nerdiest videos I've ever seen. I loved every minute of it.
George Lucas Obi Wan Kenobi: Hello There!
Surprised that you don't see more like it. Wish star trek had planets like starwars franchise
@xuz xuzii It isn't a hoax, deal with it.
@xuz xuzii The troll is STRONG with this one.
@@Tampa0123456789 It has a Few Aye Just Check out 'VOYAGER'!!
A trillion inhabitants is actually very low considering the many city layers of Corusant.
it's totally a false number lol
Action maybe not
Prolly smelly like hell with all of those *ONION OGRE LAYERS*
If we had the technology to build Coruscant, we should also be able to move heat into space, using something similar to geothermal heating for houses, but on a much larger scale. Collect the heat in the lower city and pump it into high orbit to be released.
OriginalTharios I don't believe it's the writers fault, it more of the artists who design and build the visual representation of the world. If I wanted to nick pick, there should of been more super structures like space rings, orbital elevators, a swarm of habitual space stations.
"The Original Trilogy
The ones the memes come from
Les Mis in space, and
New Hope II: Electric Boogaloo"
So accurate it hurts.
After TROS: The Original Trilogy, the ones the memes come from (prequels), the ones which everybody hates (sequels), Les Mis in Space (Rogue One), Pearl Harbor in Space (Solo), and Rotta's Day Out (The Clone Wars Movie).
*But where does the oxygen on the ice and sand planets come from???!*
Terraforming? Interstellar travel has been around for freaking forever in Star Wars, so all these planets could have been terraformed before even the Old Republic
Isn't that obvious?! Oxygen farting bacteria.
Well tech in Star Wars is shown to be that of a Type 3 civilization, so Terraforming technology isn't that much of a stretch
I’m pretty sure in the Expanded Universe that Tatooine and Hoth were both Terraformed by the Rakata
@@echelon3282 Correct, as well as Kashyyyk. According to KOTOR the Rakata punished the rowdy and rebellious inhabitants of a lush Tatooine by glassing the planet, but not before planting their native greenery on a then bare Kashyyyk.
Shameful that there's no mention that Cloud Cities ***could*** exist in real life . . . above Venus.
THANK YOU! I was looking for this
Or how about going to mercury but you can't go outside during the day...
Oh wait wrong movie
But Venus isn’t a gas giant like Bespin.
@@areallybadname9701 Venus' atmosphere is so dense that it could facilitate floating cities. In fact, the atmospheric layers that would be at optimal pressures for humans are also lacking in the planet's more corrosive properties.
Venus is a terrestrial planet, not a gas giant. Cloud cities could not exist in gas giants, even if they are plausible on Venus.
I don’t know why they call it Hoth. They should call it...cold.
A well-known galactic pun. They have also the planet Kholdd which is quite hot ;)
Its like how Iceland is warmer than Greenland
As a kid I used to think mustafar was hoth.
Bottom feeder family guy
Colth
“Starkiller base couldn’t exist” Isaac Aurther be like hold my drink and snack.
Coruscant has a system that controls its atmosphere closely. Even deciding when and if it rains
thank the maker that george lucas isn't a flat tattoiner.
ENDOR IS NOT A PLANET, IT’S A FOREST MOON!
REEEEEE
It's not a moon, it's a space sta... oh nevermind it's a moon.
@@Feaharn Like the name. Have you read the Silmarillion?
it is both lol hahahha get rekt
Well it’s a moon it’s literally called “The Forest Moon of Ender”
Be nice. If you are enough of a superfan to go all caps; you should know that the planet and its forest moon are both called Endor. Just for the sake of playing Micheal’s advocate though. If you check their orbital charts; you might see that they are both planets. According to the IAU’s 2006 assertion that ousted Pluto, each of them is three laws compliant* and qualifies as a planet. The Moon and Earth have a similar 2 planets 1 orbit** relationship.
*Yes, that was a thoroughly uncalled for allusion, but Isaac Asimov has been in the new a lot lately.
**My apologies, this was just an inexcusably bad joke that reflects my immaturity.
I wish you had done this video after episodes 8 and 9, so you could talk about Crait and Exegol
Wasn't Mustafar once a lush planet thriving with life before the bright star destroyed it? Or is that not cannon?
tl;dr - mustafar is not naturally made
That is canon, but the video was made about 2-3 years before that info was known
The fictional history doesn’t matter. It’s the planets that in the state they’re currently in when we see them in the movie.
What’s weird is that in TROS Mustafar ahas foliage on it where it should take millions of years for a planet to change like that
it is totally canon
Kashyyyk was actually terraformed by the Rakatan infinite empire, same with Tattooine.
Also, Courosunt is using weather and geological control. It barley ever rains on Courosunt.
NWTactical the tattooine transformation is still cannon, actually I'm not 100% sure if it is cannon as I didn't exactly see "legends" slapped on it, but it was said that Tattooine wasn't a always a "desert wasteland"
You know, I'm actually pretty sure your correct killerninja. I was about to post a comment saying the exact same thing, then I saw your post. So pretty sure your correct. I was also thinking, the gas on cloud city isn't your standard gas.. it's created by those giant floating creatures, I forget there names. They release the gas as a by product from there feeding, then its harvested.. so that could change things in regards to the placement of oxygen, as I'm sure it's stated that the gas is very dense?
Coruscant's artificial weather and geo change technology is canon.
A shame with the legend thing but terraforming is still controversial.
Killerninja It’s made up by some hipster screenwriter. Breathe
Despite not being a gas giant, it is speculated that a type of cloud city could exist on Venus, much like Bespin
except "bespin" actually could never exist, because you cant build a city in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant, even though you could build one in the upper atmosphere of a terrestrial planet like venus.
@@raidermaxx2324 Maybe a mining city in which people wear ultra protective space suits? Or just use robots.
@@raidermaxx2324 do you know all elements of all the planets out there? Because you don't. You've got no idea and no conclusive evidence to support any argument you've got saying it couldn't dare exist. Correct, with our earthly materials
@@mcthuggin9803 um well actually yea I do.. they can only be whatever elements exist on our periodic table of elements, but each planet can have different elements depending on how it was formed, and where.. but there are no"eridian" type sci-fi elements "yet to be discovered" except for highly radioactive heavy metals above 125 on the periodic table .. but those don't exist in nature and have to be made artificially in a particle accelerator like the Hadron collider or in nature when neutron stars collide, and the element only exists for a short time before it decays into random electrons .. so yea, actually I do know what elements are on every planet, because our chemistry and physics that exist on our planet, is the same for the entire observable universe ..
Jack Fromet
I need it
This needs a new Updated Version after the 2019 Movie :D
Like exagol
But he also forgot Crait
Yes... how about Cjemey, Exegol, and any other new planets.
@@schretlenaugustijn2391 no, he didn't, the movie crait was in wasn't released when this was made
That movie sucks
mustafar most likely has artifialy created atmosphere for humans to breath
They could separate the carbon and the oxygen from the CO2 molecules
Mustafar once had trees, so there was oxygen there. So Mustafar CAN exist.
@@mikeor- yeah but the Sith had other Plans
@@quickcube2834 Such as?
@@mikeor- to kill them all, to kill the jedi and the younglings too, but idk if there Intension was to change the Orbit of the whole Planet
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KhanStopMe aahhahahahahhahahah I laughed so hard to this hahahahah
+Ser Gerold Of House Hightower
fuck you bitch
Bone Apple Tea kinda hard when a bunch of morons keep flinging shit everywhere
ROFLMAO
KhanStopMe
LMAO!! Brilliant 😅
Mustafar, according to its information in the complete locations book, it is a moon caught in between the gravitational pull of nearby planets. Because of this, the two planet's gravitational pull is literally tearing the mustafar apart. That is why it's so volcanic.
So it is a lot more like Io then Earth in the hadean. but that still doesn't explain its breathable atmosphere. Should be choked with volcanic gasses and with no plant life on its surface to replenish the breathable oxygen then it should have all been sequestered back into the rocks by the volcanic activity if it even had oxygen in the first place. I see the point still standing.
+MegaAwesomeNick no, yeah, you're right it still stands.
the only explanation made in-universe as to why anakin, Obi-Wan, and padme survived how they did was that the landing platform was shielded and Anakin and Obi-Wan created force barriers (a thing in star wars legends) to protect them from the insane heat which I think the book placed at 600 degrees Fahrenheit if i remember correctly.
but yeah, that still doesn't make the atmosphere breathable or anything so vid still very much stands.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mustafar was torn apart by the gravity of its parent planets.
But atmospheric shields are a thing in Star Wars. (hanger bays of ships for example) So that way a breathable atmosphere can be created.
It's a lot more like Io or what Yavin IV should be mentioned earlier in the video!
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1 trillion and i bet i'll never get a tinder match
your profile picture made me get a paper towel
Starwarscels on suicide watch.
If we find a planet similar to a star wars Planet we should name it like in star wars
just imagine how excited people would be to go to Tatooine irl
If any of the planets in the alpha centauri system are desserts, we should name it Vulcan. I struggle to think of many more star trek planets, largely due to the sheer quantity of them, and the fact that most of them are earth like.
Mars is similar to tatooine in the sense that it could have been habitable before getting destroyed in a extinction event
@@Journey_Awaits mars should be named Geonosis
We should name it the War Star
Oh wait....
I don't know about Hosnian, but Coruscant does have some *serious* geo-engineering going on. Its climate is completely controlled by stations across the planet and by orbital mirrors, which focus sunlight from the planet's sun (which is actually a bit further away than earth's is). So... yeah.
They never say who pays for all those mirrors, huge ships, space stations & other flashy stuff.
KutWrite probably Mexico(get it)
I don't know why she's acting like you even could run a planet-sized city off of fossil fuels. (And yes, if you can build such a thing, geoengineering is mandatory, but not that big a task)
For more see: th-cam.com/video/XAJeYe-abUA/w-d-xo.html
A population of 1 Trillion seems rather low for a planet-city such as Coruscant! I don't know why they gave it a 'maybe', they obviously don't rely on fossil fuel for their primary source of energy, and geo-engineering would be no big deal at all for a civilization as advanced as that depicted in Star Wars.
@@KutWrite It seems reasonable to assume that it would be paid for by taxation of the planetary population and industry, or by tax collected from across the galaxy given that it was the political centre for such a long period?
Here's a backhanded compliment: This video made you seem like an actual youtuber.
"theres no oxygen so it makes no sense"
literally every planet in the solar system other than earth:
am I joke to you
BradlinhoYT humans can’t breathe
@@jeffthatcher7736 they aren't humans
Zachary Williams there are plenty of humans. Luke, Leia, Han Solo. The planets that didn’t feature humans, have a chance of being realistic.
Mars and Venus have oxygen, and so do Jupiter and Saturn.
Mike Or barely any. Mars is primarily Co2, Jupiter and Saturn are primarily Hydrogen and Helium. A human could not breathe that air.
It’s theoretically possible in the future that we could build giant bases containing stars so with the super advanced society of Star Wars I would have given the Starkiller Base a Maybe.
Wahay ya boy with the stylish haircut is back.
Real Engineering oh wow didn't expect to see you here. Though I suppose it makes sense.
Uhmm, that is "Dr.stylish haircut" to you sir!
Meanwhile in *Mass Effect: Andromeda* they can terraform a planets' atmosphere in under 10 minutes 😂
Pfft. Star Trek does that in 10 seconds.
I'm still waiting for Scott Ryder to give me that lap dance at Tartarus...
@@Mp57navy Only to have it explode a few weeks later.
@@benjaminnelson5455 Well.... that wasn't the point of the argument.
The three franchises have civilizations that can Terraform planets yet i think Star Wars is the only one with the Type 3 Civilization
Guess no one ever briefed them on Ecumenopolises...
RIP Coruscant.
ikr I was waiting to hear the and they also dismissed the cloud cities right off the bat
hahaha Isaac Arthur rules !!!
Hosnian prime was destroyed not Coruscant
“Could a Planet Like Earth In the Milky Way Galaxy Really Exist?”
Well, a rise you a somewhat counter intuitive bit of statistics:
A planet like earth has a probability of a 100% to exist in the solar system and milky way.
All past events have zero uncertainty after observed and our planet is already here =)
What about that nonsense of Naboo having an "ocean core?"
its fiction and doesnt need to follow our laws
I was looking for a comment about Naboo, that planet also has a core of plasma energy instead of a molten one so we really can't decide on that mind f#ck.
Ocean core? you mean plaaaanet coooore
They probably mean "really deep", like at the crust boundary to the mantle. The bottom of an ocean. Not literally the core of the planet. As shown the planetary battlefield on the surface wasn't that far from Theed.
More likely than not it may just be deep river and lakes with many connected by under water cavities, canals and caves. And would be located at around 0 to 5,000 ft deep into nabboo's crust. Also it has the potential to be deeper in the oceans.
Wait, kashyyk is unlikely so it gets a maybe? How does that figure? If its possible, its possible.
Isaac Delgass my thoughts exactly
Isaac Delgass
Unlikely means nothing, given the mere possibility means that it exists, somewhere in the billions of galaxies.
Saying that anything is impossible is almost meaningless, really.
the idea that something not being impossible means it exists is moderately incorrect. Some infinities are bigger than other as the saying goes. Take it like with the number scale. There are infinite things between 1 and 2. None of them are 3 or 4. Just as with that in the near infinity that is the ever expanding universe is the same as that may be everything between earth and endor but that doesn't mean kashyyk is in it.
Bethorien
True, that.
The universe isn't actually infinitely large, so there are limits to probability, anyways.
Lol, I was indulging in hyperbole 😂
But this is just 2 factors. Of wich BOTH exist in our solar system so its unlikely that they are that rare. And in a galaxy with literal billions of worlds there are sure to be one or two worlds that show both characteristics.
You know that the starkillerbase is Ilum in reality?
It's like Hoth, where the kyber crystals are.
Only by Disney standards, but since Disney is not the Star Wars we accept as canon, its not important. Ney, on the contraire. Its an abomination that ruins the true Star Wars lore, both past and future.
@@Ulvetann Tell me where did Disney touch you?
IT'S WHAT!? How dare they do that to my crystal planet
@@masonpreston5156 An very powerful iceplanet, with the force that strong to build cyber cristals, I'm sorry the reference to a planer like hoth was bad
@@blackscreenofficialmusic224 LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY
You should do these analysis on Crait from The Last Jedi, Kessel from Solo, and Exegol from the Rise of Skywalker.
As soon as I saw Star Killer Base, I lost my shit. Before I even knew what it did. Our crust may be as thin as an eggshell when compared to a basketball, but it's not an Easter Egg craft where you poke a hole in the bottom and let the yolk leak out.
TBH hollowing out plants is EASY in a Sci-Fi setting. If you really want your mind blown by some
Hard Sci-Fi, try this: th-cam.com/video/Tul4njD6uP4/w-d-xo.html
@@Lashb1ade i knew it would be Isaac before i clicked the link
Loved this video, well produced and great explanations!
Great comeback to TH-cam, can't wait to see what's next!
The water planets are interesting to me. I read a novel by Arthur C. Clarke called "The Songs of Distant Earth" which featured a water planet, covered by ocean save for a single archipelago. Seeing them show up in things like Star Wars, Interstellar and even Waterworld, or "Mad Max on Water" always makes me smile.
Mustafar is literally a habitable version of the Sun.
Io exists. We basically have a Mustafar moon in our own solar system
We really don't have to give them artistic license with starkiller base. That was just increadibly stupid.
....thank God...finally someone...
i mean... how would you hollow out a planet and why would you do that?
Just as "incredibly" stupid as your statement lol.
Haha you can't even spell you default.
@@alveolate They did this with a tool called 'Plotdevice'. It allows you to build shit from even less stuff than McGaiver uses and make it work a thousand times more efficent than it could possibly work. Whoever invented this tool was a true genius.
Just curious on some things. How would Tatooine or other desert planets hold a breathable atmosphere with no large bodies of water or seemingly any flora?
Isn't Naboo's interior a bunch of massive big tunnels filled with underground oceans, does that not cause some issue?
I presume Mustafar minus a global breathable atmosphere (say as a mining base manned by droids, or with interior atmosphere within strucutres) would work?
Also I felt a little cheated on Dagoba, it seems sometimes singular biomes planets can exist, but I was hoping for details how a planetwide swamp would work.
Other than that, great video
And how could a world lacking any visible water or flora support populations of megafauna like Banthas, Dewbacks, Krayt Dragons, Rontos, Sarlaacs, and so on?
In Legends it's said that Tatooine was a jungle planet a long time ago
A very long time ago...but in the present there's no bodies of water and no flora. No source of oxygen. Or food for all of the animals.
Tatooine used to be covered in plant life, until the Rakata firebombed it to dust and glass. What water is left is either in the atmosphere, or in aquifers deep under the sand.
And turns out that Earth itself has an underground ocean.
Sarlaacs are actually foreign to the planet. 98% of it's body is underground, it has taproots to suck up underground water, and it digests it's prey over thousands of years.
Banthas are found all over the galaxy. Nobody knows why or how, and it even developed a cult in-universe due to the mystery.
And turns out Tattooine has some plant life, and a species of lichen that a lot of herbivores depend on. And of course, Krayt Dragons EAT the other megafauna, and basically everything else.
Coruscant does have "strategically placed air filters in the upper atmosphere" - some now Legends book but Disney doesn't make enough good Star Wars content
Disney doesn't make any* good Star Wars content
TheManlyManMan what about Mando and clone wars s7
Star killer base used to be known as ilum. It created the kyber crystals for the Jedi and was an Ice planet
Mustafar is described as a planet in the materials, but the film, which we should consider the most valid source, shows it near a bigger planet in all the space views. Therefore I would say it's a moon and the volcanic activity is due to the tidal forces, just like Io.
Also, how about Naboo? Apparently it's possible to travel through its core with a submarine, if we take Boss Nasses words literally. The wiki says that the interior has naturally occurring plasma.
Fantastically done, really interesting video! Keep up the good work! P.S. The number of meme-references in this video was off the charts! Even Master Yoda doesn't have a meme count that high!
This is really interesting subject..looking forward to watching more of your videos
I wonder if, in a few million years, Hoth will be a lush, temperate jungle world.
bit of a correction, the planet Felucia more closely resembles the Sliurian then the Cambrian. they're were no land plants during the cambrian
I wasn't aware of that, thank you for the correction!
@@SimonClark I think you meant the Carboniferous period, which was the greenest time in Earth's history.
@@Zadwon shut up he got corrected by prowler dont try to get his attention nerd
... well he isn't a geologist. : ))))))
Beautifully done Simon! Missed your videos!
With the way tatooine was depicted in the movie, I'm surprised you didn't once talk about where the Oxygen they were breathing came from, and also the fact that because it's a desert with two suns, how could Luke and his family live on that planet for years without developing a tan overtime? Especially his aunt and uncle.
while Canon does confirm that it once had Water, that doesn't help the fact that the Oxygen should be depleted by the inhabitants of Tatooine, that includes Geonosis, Jakku, and many other desert planets.
if naboo can exist does that mean Jar Jar could be real 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
I hope
Me too
I hoe not
if he exists it allows me to stomp him to death
Simon this is a spectacularly good video. Just found it via recommended, phenomenal stuff.
you might want to do a bit more research into Naboo before saying it's possible
Loved this video. Super intresting and great to see that most of the worlds we see in Star Wars are possible (mostly).
"while anakin and obi wan..."
padme: ah ____ here we go again
This is brilliantly nerdy.
nerd level: IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!
Koenigsegg Fanboy just... just stop.
This got me to study atmospherical physics
You're alive! Welcome back :')
JanetInVids maybe Baspin could had it's up atmopher blown away in a gamaray burst and . would star wars be using clean energy
I wonder if we could build a Death Star planet on the surface of Earth, and then just "detach", maybe with some sort of pendulum in the middle, but the idea being that we don't have to launch all that mass into space, nor build it in space.
Don't forget, Endor's full name is The Forest Moon of Endor. It's a moon around a gas giant called Endor.
14:51 "Rise to the surface as geezers..." LOL
This was extremely cool and very helpful! I'm trying to create a universe similar to Star Wars with planets and star systems that could theoretically exist in our own world and this really helped me with that! Plus, I'm a Star Wars fan and a science nerd, so this was just awesome all around
7:52 *It’s the Cambrian explosion.*
4:48 its actually forest moon of endor. endor is a forest or something like that planet
Loved it. I was sceptic after seeing your "waht am I doing after my PhD" video, but I was pleasently surprised (:
Hold on so mercury has nearly no axial tilt and venus has a nearly perfect orbit. Judging on our solar system alone there would be (1/8)*(1/8) chance of a planet having both traits, or rather 1/64 chance. If the space lady says it's extremely unlikely then I trust her, but I would like some reasoning behind it.
Technically it's ALL likely, because the universe is essentially infinitely vast.
@@candyman_315 Well I guess likelihood is relative. However a 1/64 chance is very likely in almost every scenario.
@@volundrfrey896 Well the problem with that is that our solar system is just one example, which could be the exception. Though what you are saying is mathematically correct, we simply don't have enough measurements to concider this 1/64 chance to be correct. She also said 'nearly', so having an actually perfect orbit and no tilt hasn't been recorded yet. And in this case you might also have to consider every object in our solar system, not just the eight biggest ones. This would quickly turn 1/64 into an improbably small chance.
@@candyman_315 Ruling out a planet for orbital mechanics that are not only plausible but completely possible is a tad, well, rash. Especially as we can observe both, while on operate planets, in one solar system. That is our own.
@@theexchipmunk I'm confused. Did you mean to point that at me, and if so, is this trying to disapprove or approve my claim?
I subbed you. Amazing video. Thank you!
That was so much fun! Thank you!
My calculations show that coruscants population would be at least in the quadrillions.
(With the population density of New York City being used for every layer [3000+] and their respective surface areas)
Yeah, but you would run into waste heat problems LONG before that
Coruscant seems to have entire factory/exhaust districts where nobody lives, so those should probably bring the total population estimate down a bit.
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 but not nearly to that degree. coruscant has literally thousands of layers with each layer including several stories. I personally like to think it has the heat equivalent of a black hole somewhere down in the core because otherwise, massive heat death
Edit: Also, apart from the factories they also have to be growing their own food, so it can be assumed that they have massive hydroponic systems down there recycling their biowaste in the process
I imagine Coruscant has vast spaces where people don't live. Power grids, huge biowaste recycling systems, massive atmospheric cleaners, automated production facilities, shipyards, factories, with huge structural supports throughout.
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 If people are questioning Coruscant's existence, imagine trying to calculate the physics of Mata Nui's body
Really well made video with fantastic voiceover. Never thought I’d find something about “space” and Star Wars interesting. Amazing video.
If the planets exist then so do the characters
-Albert Enstine
You mean Einstein
Jurre Huizinga no I said Enstine because it’s a stupid version of him
Yavin could potentially work if the other moons are very small and its eccentricity is nearly zero, which would reduce tidal heating. Triton has an eccentricity of 0.000016, which is 250 times less than Io. As heating reduces with eccentricity squared, Yavin could definitely be possible (but would be a bit deformed).
though the shots of Yavin 4 and Yavin Prime are indeed extremely exaggerated, as of in, they are made to look close to each other while in actuality, they aren't suppose to be that close.
Great video. A real pleasure. Thanks, Simon
The Hayden period was indeed a rough time for our planet.
Great video! Maybe you could make another video like this someday featuring planets like the ones from star wars jedi: fallen order (Dathomir, Ilum, Zeffo and Bogano) or maybe the clone wars or rebels series (maybe Atollon or Mandalore).
Well, Yavin 4 may be able to exist so long as Yavin was a "puffy planet" (a type of gas giant which is less massive than Jupiter but bigger) and it was a bit further away than predicted (maybe 400,000 km would be far enough).
Endor was actually name of the gas giant, not the moon.
+Notumengi it's actually unclear in the lore - Endor has been canonically used to refer to both the gas giant and the moon!
Simon Clark oh, didnt know that
"Forest moon of Endor" is the name of the moon, but everyone calls it Endor which is actually the gas giant's name but nobody cares XD
Yup. Admiral Ackbar calls it the “Forest moon of Endor” in ROTJ it’s never referred to as Endor on screen
To be fair, one could easily call the largest planet in our Solar system "The gas giant of Jupiter" and be grammatically sound.
This is such a fascinating video! I should be studying for my finals today but this is just so much more interesting!
Angela Cook Priorities, but i hope you still graduated to your satisfaction
"The 2 planets that are most like earth are croissante and optimus prime."
The sunset over Tatooine shows a yellow and a red sun appears as the same size in the sky. Red stars are massively larger than yellow ones. Thus we could assume that Tatooine has an S-type orbit around the smaller yellow star and we might imagine that the reason that Luke is taking the time to witness the sunset that evening is because it is the time when the two suns set at the same time. Their relative distances making them appear similar sizes to the Tatooine-bound observer.
Great subject! You have a great voice over voice and who doesn't love exoplanet chat and Star wars! It's quite a long video, but then again, when you have an interesting subject how do you cut it down!
Agreed, there are so many TH-camrs with atrocious voiceover work, it's a nice change to hear someone with a calm, stable voice (and who doesn't throw 10-million-dollar words around without understanding what they mean). Kudos, Simon!
Andy B 10-million-dollar words! I want to hear these 😉 ha. I love voice over work. It's an opportunity to really explore what the words you are saying mean and how they should make you feel.
A common one: "Exaspirate" in place of :Exacerbate". Stay shiny-side up!
it has exactly the right length an such a positive attitude, there are 5 or 6 hour videos that just rant and nevcer get to the point and stretch a 10 minute topic into hours and hours of overanalysis and repeating, it's realy refreshing seeing something professional on youtube xD
5:48, but that not the gas it made of, It Tibanna gas (fictional) which, based on its use in plasma weapons, is much MORE dense and heavy then air. Real world Science is all well and good but just ignore fictional elements (in this case literally) from a setting.
Doesn't matter. If Cloud City is sitting in the bottom of a nitrogen/O2 layer, just above a layer of tibanna, the way gases sort out should mean that the N/O2 layer - and Cloud City within it - should be under inhospitable pressure due to the lighter gases above it. (it'd be hard to imagine there being no lighter gases - hydrogen and helium are _everywhere_ in a forming solar system no matter what weird galaxy you're in, and they seem to accumulate anywhere with a strong enough gravity well to hold them.) Of course, this doesn't mean you can't have a Cloud City. It just means that it should not have been open to the sky.
why not? as long as the pressure inside and outside of a human is equal, there is not a big deal with it
And this assumes the bubble in which Cloud City floats wasn't put there with the city. It's a mining colony, after all.
The focus of the video was "could these planets/moons/whathaveyou really exist?", not "could these things exist if we make allowances for the writers' imaginations?".
I could tell you there is a planet somewhere off in the distance that has a perfect 372 day year, numerous moons, and is otherwise exactly like Earth. If the two people in this video tell me such a thing is impossible, I tend to believe them regardless of what Plot Crowbar I use to get around their objections.
aspie182 that’s where you’re wrong. Is the video limited by what planets could form naturally or are stable according the laws of physics? Many planets in Star Wars were altered, either their landscape or their position in the local solar system. And that is entirely possible according to physics.
I mean, the space doesn’t actually have an end, so there could be a star wars universe but far far far really far away from us.
Or we’re just in the unknown region of the Star Wars galaxy XD.
So you're saying that on Coruscant there's a TH-cam video debating whether this "Earth" planet from some movie could exist?
Guy Kruger who knows. 😂
If civilisations exist then they are probably creepy af like warhammer
@@Journey_Awaits Dude that's offensive
Maybe in a galaxy far away, Andromeda system maybe?
Star Wars characters: *See Earth
Also Star Wars Characters: “Yo wtf”
My dumbass: I knew it your universe was real and they called me crazy
I really love this video. I was so awesome!! I want to learn more about the weirder exoplanets that have been discovered.
Great vid. The 18 minutes seemed like 4.. hope you can do more of these in the future
Nice video dude
Interesting, fair, and well researched. Very nice, thank you.
you forgot Salucamai (that could exist)
for the new movies:
Kessel: could exist but unlikely with a breathable atmosphere
Canto Bight: Yes
Crait: Yes
Mimban: yes
Savareen: yes (similar climate to Tatooine)
Corellia: yes
Vandor: yes (Hoth with jagged mountains)
That other planet from Solo that I cant remember: probably
Just for the record you missed Saleucami. But that means literally nothing, and was not worth bringing up, to be frank.
Yea, this was really cool. Make more like these, please. Maybe you could update this down the line as well. I'd like to hear your thoughts on Crait.
Thanks for sharing your video