 The 2007 "Star Wars Legends" novel "Death Star" explained the ring effect at Alderaan as the shadow of a hyperspace ripple from firing the superlaser at full charge.The effect is also seen near the end of the 1998 film "Armageddon", when the asteroid is split in half by a nuclear bomb.The Praxis effect is also seen in The Return of the King (2003), the third installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, when the Eye of Sauron explodes following the destruction of the One Ring.