Only through the initial gas wave, but it'll disperse very close.

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Also, you'd hear them a bit if they're close or if you're touching a medium like ship hull

Explosions would be the same, but would spread out much faster due to lack of resistance, at pretty much orbital velocities perhaps, and therefore just looking like a flash with a cone of gas for 300ms or so, then some more particles and depressurisation. Also, very sudden change in velocity, explosion working like a thrust.

More concerning is that barely any movies represent correct orbital mechanics and space ships. They often just took planes and made them fly in a dark void where everything's close and slow.

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Me too, hate having to scroll so far for the interesting stuff

>The risk is nearing commercial airlines

That's just blatantly not true

even in an atmosphere, proper high explosions (as opposed to combustion) are too fast to consume atmospheric oxygen anyway, they are fueled mostly by their own payload oxidizer, so they can happen in vacuum just fine if proper ignition and oxidizer is provided (or if they are nuclear-based)

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I have a picture of Mars, and have a photo of the Orion, Rigel, Aldebaran, Jupiter and Venus on the same sky, and something I highly suspect Uranus. Phone cameras are getting so much better these days.

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Im here to save the day! You are absolutely right and if it bothers you I VERY STRONGLY ADVICE YOU to watch The Expanse tv series on Amazon Prime, which is one of the most scientificaly correct sci-fi tv show ever filmed.

Stop ruining movies. They are supposed to be fun, not a documentary.

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Idk why but the picture is really low quality on reddit

Nice photo 🤙

You've got Betelgeuse (Orion - Giant's shoulder) standing out above the belt and clockwise around and it you have Bellatrix, Rigel and Saiph.

(!) At some point in the next 100,000 years Betelgeuse will explode. To life on Earth it will be visible during the day and as bright as a half moon for about a year until it slowly fades out of the sky. 🤷

I think you've got Sirius bottom left between the trees and Aldebaran top right too.

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My understanding is that the moon still gets hit with things

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"You still wake up sometimes don't you? Wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the aliens."

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Explosions in space movies aren't actually that unrealistic. If you're talking SW, realistically, those ships would use antimatter propulsion. If containment fails, boom. If anything, those explosions are too small.

In case of low-tech / current-tech sci-fi - as you've noted there's no fire in space, so in order to burn their engines ship need to carry their own oxygen (or other oxidiser) - if ship is damaged and they mix boom.