How the Star Wars Kessel Run Turns Han Solo Into a Time-Traveler

02-12-2013 • http://www.wired.com, By Kyle Hill

You’ll hear any reputable Star Wars fan point it out eventually: Han Solo’s famous boast that the Millennium Falcon “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs” may have sounded impressive, but from an astronomical perspective, it made no sense.