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DarkSapiens
@DarkSapiens
Astrophysicist. I've studied gravitational lenses, active galaxies, dark matter and black holes with data from ALMA, VLA, VLT, GTC… and soon JWST? (he/him)
Aug 30, 2020 • 45 tweets • 16 min read
Home One is the cruiser of Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi. Its official length is stated at about 1300 m in nearly all official sources, although it's sometimes 1200 m or even 1400 m.

These numbers are wrong.

We know because the size is larger in the movie itself. Several measurements have been done over the years, most notably those of astrophysicist Curtis Saxton, published in the Star Wars Technical Commentaries website: theforce.net/SWTC/mcc.html#…