In Avatar, the fictional moon where Pandora’s forests are located is named Pandora. It is a habitable moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system.
James Cameron’s 2009 film presents Pandora as the home of the Na’vi and an environment filled with interconnected plant and animal life. The moon’s bioluminescent forests, floating mountains, and unusual ecology are central to the film’s visual world and environmental themes.
Pandora is often mistakenly called a planet because characters and viewers commonly refer to it as a world. In the film’s setting, however, it is specifically a moon. Polyphemus is the much larger planet that Pandora orbits.
The name also deliberately recalls the Greek mythological figure. The film’s Pandora is not the ancient woman with the jar, but the shared name evokes mystery, discovery, and the consequences of human actions.