The forest moon of Endor, also known as the sanctuary moon or simply as Endor is a fictional moon in the Star Wars fictional universe. It appears in Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewok, and is the body that the second Death Star is constructed in orbit around. It is also the location of the Ewok TV movie Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, as well as the animated series Star Wars: Ewoks (and the Marvel Comics adaptation of the animated series).
The body has no name in Return of the Jedi; it is simply called the "forest moon of Endor". However, no planet is shown in the film for it to orbit as a moon. The novelization explains this by asserting that the planet was destroyed a long time ago. The Ewok television movies, by contrast, show a large gas giant in the moon's skies, but refer to the moon as "Endor". In the Ewoks cartoon, the moon is shown to orbit a binary star.
Endor is a forested world of giant trees. The Endor scenes in Return...
