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Star Wars Galaxy Map Updated, Fans Delight in New Lore

by Natalie Dec 16,2025

Star Wars enthusiasts, celebrate: Lucasfilm has revived its ambitious project to chart the galaxy of the iconic sci-fi saga, releasing an incredibly detailed map featuring over 500 planets.

Have you ever pondered the distance between Tatooine and Hoth? How truly secluded Yoda was, hidden away in the swamps of Dagobah? Or just how remote Jakku is from the galactic core? Now, you can discover the answers.

The map now charts more of the galaxy's enigmatic Unknown Regions—look, there's Exegol, the Sith planet from *The Rise of Skywalker*, which Rey could only locate by aligning an ancient dagger with the horizon and infiltrating the wreckage of the Death Star. If only she had possessed this map, perhaps that film's plot would have been clearer.

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Despite the immense difficulty of reaching Exegol portrayed in the film (and the subsequent arrival of half the galaxy anyway), it is not the map's most distant planet. Notably, the Unknown Regions also feature Csilla, the homeworld of the secretive, blue-skinned Chiss species, whose most renowned figure is Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Not every famous Star Wars planet is included. Significant omissions are "extragalactic" locations outside the primary galaxy, such as the clone-producing planet Kamino and Peridea, the world visited in *Ahsoka* after the story shifts to an entirely different galaxy.

Lucasfilm has announced plans to update the map periodically with new revisions and will release more detailed regional maps for densely populated areas like the Inner Rim, the Colonies, the Core, and the Deep Core.

Star Wars' revamped galaxy map. Image credit: Lucasfilm.

You can explore the full map here, and consult an extensive list of every featured planet here—the best resource for pinpointing exactly what you're searching for.

Next in the Star Wars pipeline are a second season of *Ahsoka* and the big-screen debut of *The Mandalorian & Grogu*. Additionally, Ryan Gosling is set to journey to that galaxy far, far away in the 2027 film *Star Wars: Starfighter*.

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