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Asked by SATURNSRINGS672 to Lisa, Mark, Rachel, Sammie, Stephen, Tim on 5 Mar 2018.
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Stephen Wilkins answered on 5 Mar 2018:
Well, lot’s of the action takes place in space 😉 obviously all the locations/events are fictional but we have now started to discover planets around other stars some of which may be similar to those imagined by star wars and other films.
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Lisa Baddeley answered on 5 Mar 2018:
I’d say it is. As Stephen says lots of action takes place in space and I think the star wars films have inspired a lot of people to think about space and other planets and solar systems. I’d also like to think that star wars shows us a lot of beings from different planets work together and that’s how it is in science (although people from lots of different countries working together). You very rarely find a project in science that is just one department in one university working on it alone – everyone has their own specialities which they bring to the project (not quite as exciting as finding access codes to a shield generator etc. but the same principle.)
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Sammie Buzzard answered on 5 Mar 2018:
We think our own planet may have been iced over once like Planet Hoth, we call this theory snowball earth http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/earth_timeline/snowball_earth
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Stephanie commented on :
So there is a lot to be said for the “science” in “science-fiction”. Did you know that one of saturn’s moons actually looks like the Death Star? It’s called Mimas and is the smallest body we know in space that is rounded by gravity. It has an impact crater that is 130km across, which if we had an equivalent sized crater on Earth would be the size of Australia!
The most recent satellite to reach Saturn took some close up images of this moon, some of which can be seen here: https://www.space.com/10887-saturn-moon-mimas-photos-death-star.html