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It’s a simple shape: a sphere with a concave dish set in the surface.  In 1977, the shape was forever burned into our brain from the blockbuster movie Star Wars.  The Death Star was a space station as large as a moon that housed the “ultimate weapon,” a planet-destroying laser.

Mental Floss has channeled our inner geek and produced a list of 6 things that resemble the Death Star.  At left is Mimas, one of the inner moons of Saturn.  It has an 80-mile-wide crater named Herschel, which certainly looks like the Death Star’s super laser.  The uncanny resemblance is coincidental, however, as Star Wars was made several years before Mimas was photographed up close.

6 Things That Resemble the Death Star