can you see the lasers in space – I'm a Scientist 2024/25

Question: can you see the lasers in space
- Keywords:
  laser,
  light,
  physics,
  space
Asked by wasp520buss to Viviene DC on 3 Apr 2025.
- Viviene Dela Cruz answered on 3 Apr 2025:
  
  Hiya! So lasers in space are usually invisible UNTIL it hits an object. So you can’t see laser beams but you can probably see it if you’re in space and it hits a thing like the Moon 🙂 (we send lasers to the Moon all the time! To measure how far it’s moving away from us)

Question: can you see the lasers in space