Star Flaws: What the Millennium Falcon Really Saw

When Star Wars first hit theaters in May 1977, one scene that always had audiences gasping and whooping -- according to multiple contemporary reports -- came when Han Solo's ship escaped Tatooine and zoomed into a field of suddenly-stretched stars.

"The sequence where Han Solo's ship hits light speed - hyperspace - gets a cheer every single time," Rolling Stone's Paul Scanlon told George Lucas that summer. "People just love it."

Lucas responded: "There's nothing like popping the old ship into hyperspace to give you a real thrill." In the decades that followed, the stretched-star imagery became a common sci-fi meme.

Well, kid, strap yourselves in and prepare for a shock: A f…
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