As Lando Calrissian pointed out in that film, much safer versions of the Kessel Run were normally at least 20 parsecs.Īmusingly, in "Solo: A Star Wars Story," Chewbacca pointed out that Han's route was actually slightly more than 12 parsecs, but in "Star Wars: A New Hope," the smuggler is already exaggerating that he did it in less than 12. In the film, he flies the Millennium Falcon from Kessel through a cosmic maelstrom on a hazardous shortcut that was only about 12 parsecs long. However, " Solo: A Star Wars Story" revealed that Han meant what he said after all. The blunder was meant to show that Han "was something of a bull artist who didn't always know precisely what he was talking about." When "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" repeated Han's claim, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argued the space opera was "unashamed of inanity."Īccording to the comic book adaptation of the movie, Star Wars' creator George Lucas claimed the seeming gaffe was intentional. In "Star Wars: A New Hope," the scoundrel Han Solo brags that his ship the Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." For years, fans nitpicked that a parsec if a unit of distance, not time, so Han's boast made no sense. Specifically, a parsec is the distance to a star whose apparent position shifts by 1 arcsecond (1/3,600 of a degree) in the sky after Earth orbits halfway around the sun.Ī parsec amounts to about 3.26 light-years, or about 19.2 trillion miles (30.9 trillion kilometers). However, the unit of astronomical distance used more often in astronomy research is the parsec, which is a portmanteau of " parallax" and "arcsecond." The term comes from the use of triangulation to determine the distance of nearby stars.
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