Star Wars Explains A Crucial Part Of Space Travel No One’s Thought About

In A New Hope, Han Solo explains that navigating the Star Wars galaxy can be a tricky and dangerous task. Without the proper calculations, one could accidentally fly straight through a planet or a star at lightspeed. And even though Star Wars can’t decide how hyperspace really works, it has a more difficult time explaining how pilots are always able to find what they’re looking for on the planet. Oftentimes, the population of a planet is in the millions, billions, or even trillions. And while it makes sense for pilots to know where to land on well-mapped planets, it’s hard to explain how they know where to land on rural ones.