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Lightsaber Blade

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Lightsaber Blade

The elegant weapon of a Jedi Knight/Pop Culture

The lightsaber is the signature weapon of the Star Wars universe, a plasma blade powered by a kyber crystal and projected from a metal hilt. According to canon, standard blade length is roughly 0.91 to 1.37 meters. The hilt itself is about 25-30 cm long, and the whole assembly weighs very little since the blade is made of contained plasma. Real-world prop sabers weigh about 0.45 kg for the hilt alone.

Measurements

Blade length1.3 m
5.65Wine glass heights
6.84No. 2 pencils
2,600Tardigrade body lengths

Standard Jedi lightsaber blade

Hilt length2.8 tenths m
14Grape diameters
23.3Aspirin tablets

Typical single-handed hilt

Total length1.58 m
31.3AA battery lengths
15,800Paper thicknesses

Hilt plus blade

Blade diameter3 hundredths m
4.1 tenthsLipstick tubes
6.7 quadrillionthsNeptune orbit radii
4.5 hundredthsPillow lengths

Approximate blade thickness

Hilt mass (prop)4.5 tenths kg
9,000Water drops
450Paperclip weights
2.25Smartphones

Real-world prop replica weight

Blade temperature (lore)25,000 K
75.8Sahara Desert peaks
119Mars surface temps
52.8Bread ovens

Estimated plasma temperature in-universe

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