- "When the night it is… is the sun gone?"
"I mean… of course it's not."
"Of course. Obvious, it is." - ―Yoda uses a sun as an allegory for the Force to Luke Skywalker
Stars were massive, glowing, spheres of plasma and gas that produced their own light and energy. Stars that were the central body of a planetary system were referred to as suns.
Description[]
- "I belong to the stars."
"You're owned by giant balls of exploding gas?"
"Okay... Maybe I'm over-romanticizing it a bit." - ―Poe Dameron and Karé Kun
Stars were large celestial bodies that generated heat, light and radiation and consisted of a mass of burning plasma and gas.[3] Resistance member Karé Kun once referred to them as "giant balls of exploding gas."[2] Prime Minister Dreand Yens once remarked that stars only twinkled in the sky because they were burning to stay alive, which he believed was proof that nature's beauty came from function.[4] During the High Republic Era, stars were assigned to a specific class by their chemical properties, such as R-class stars being unusually nitrogen-heavy.[5]
A human's skin could darken from sun exposure; Sergeant Tonra usually had a pale complexion, but after spending two weeks in the sun, his skin reddened significantly. Human infants needed to be protected from the sun; when Sola Naberrie was preparing to spend the day outdoors with her newborn baby Ryoo, she needed to get Ryoo's sun protection first.[6]
Types of stars[]
There were seven types of main sequence stars in the galaxy:[7]
- "A" stars were white, and had a lifespan of four hundred million to two billion years. Example: Colu.[7]
- "M" stars were red and emitted little light or heat. They had a lifespan of over one hundred trillion years. They were also called red dwarfs. Example: Barab.[7]
With O-class stars being the biggest in the sequence, the size decreased gradually to the smallest M-class stars.[7]
The non-main sequence stars include:[7]
Pre-main sequence (smaller than M-class stars):[7]
- Brown dwarf. Example: Doornik-1142.[7]
- Protostar. Example: Black Bantha Nebula.[7]
Post main-sequence (bigger than O-class stars):[7]
- Red giant. Example: Sokor.[7]
- Blue giant. Example: Ku'Baku.[7]
- Red supergiant. Example: Primus Goluud.[7]
Compact stars:[7]
- White dwarf. Example: Ardos.[7]
- Black dwarf. Example: A star in the The Ring.[7]
- Neutron star. Example: Oolex pulsar.[7]
- Black hole. Example: Endor Gate.[7]
Other exotic star types existed that did not fit precisely into this system of classification. These included Asar, considered a blue dwarf,[8] and yellow dwarfs.[9]
Starbirth[]
- "The strongest stars have hearts of kyber."
- ―Chirrut Îmwe
Stars formed in areas of space known as stellar nurseries,[11] through a collision of energies in the form of pressure and heat, a process which shaped the space around it and could be seen from millions of kilometers away.[12] The ignition of a planet's core by an outside force could also result in the formation of a star.[13] Chirrut Îmwe once remarked that the "strongest stars" had kyber at their center.[10] After their birth, stars went through various stages during their life, such as a yellow dwarf expanding to become a red giant.[9] Plants drew sustenance from sunlight.[14]
Stars and planets[]
- "There are so many! Do they all have a system of planets?"
"Most of them." - ―Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, looking at the stars
Most stars were orbited by a set of planets and other bodies.[15] In that case, they were referred to as suns. A sun, together with all the bodies bound to it, formed a planetary system. In some cases, a planetary system could contain several suns, as was the case around the planets of Tatooine[16] and Mon Cala.[17] Life could not exist without stars.[18]
A planet revolving around a star normally received light and warmth from it,[9] although there were exceptions. Umbara was known as the "Shadow World" because the rays of its sun never completely reached the planet's surface, keeping it in perpetual darkness.[19] In the night sky, remote stars looked like mere points of light.[15] By convention, those points of light were grouped into constellations.[20] Without a star, most worlds would become lifeless and frozen. The size and distance of a sun would affect many of the features of a planet orbiting it.[21]
On the planet Coruscant, stars were hard to see, due to all the city lights of the sprawling ecumenopolis. However, according to young Obi-Wan Kenobi, one could see them if they knew how to look. Stars could be used for navigation: When young Kenobi returned to the Jedi Temple after trying to help fellow Jedi Initiate Gehren Rand, who had run away, he used the stars to find his way home.[22]
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
- Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge — "Episode 2" (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s))
- Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge — "Episode 3"
- † LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
- LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Star Wars: Visions — "Journey to the Dark Head" (Ambiguous canonicity)
- Star Wars: Visions — "In the Stars" (Ambiguous canonicity)
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Star Wars (2020) 35
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Age of Resistance - Poe Dameron 1
- ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ The Princess and the Scoundrel
- ↑ The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
- ↑ Queen's Shadow
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 34 (Guide to the Galaxy: Types of Stars)
- ↑ Nexus of Power
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Bloodline
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ Star Wars: Aliens of the Galaxy
- ↑ A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
- ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Tatooine in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ Mon Cala in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ "Forces of Nature: The Wild Spaces and Wilder Creatures of the Star Wars Galaxy" — Star Wars Insider 216
- ↑ Umbara in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ Ezra's Duel with Danger
- ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- ↑ Obi-Wan 1