This is the best Star Wars-related newspaper correction you'll see today

Prepare to shudder, Star Wars geeks.

ON TUESDAY, THE Austin American Statesman used a moment from Star Wars to illustrate the weather.

They wrote that it wouldn’t be “slice-open-a-tauntaun-like-Luke-Skywalker-in-’The-Empire-Strikes-Back’ cold”.

Only problem with this colourful analogy? It was Hans Solo who sliced open a tauntaun, not Luke Skywalker.

Cut to the best Star Wars-related newspaper correction you’ll likely read today.

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This is the best Star Wars-related newspaper correction you'll see today

This cringey New York Times correction will delight 90s kids >

Marian Keyes says Marian Finucane pushed her on mental health in interview >