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Where in space, and how powerful a telescope are you using?

There's an urban legend that you can see the Great Wall of China with the naked eye from the Moon. You can't, not even close. It's difficult bordering on impossible to see it with the naked eye from the International Space Station, which is much much closer to Earth than the Moon is.

What you can see fairly readily if you're as close as the ISS is large straight lines in contrasting colors. The US Interstate Highway system is possible to pick out in places, as are some canals (one astronaut who thought he could see the Great Wall discovered, when he used binoculars, that he was actually seeing an irrigation canal). Large-scale irrigation projects are visible.

From the Moon or further... pretty much bupkis without a telescope.

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Manmade objects or things an astronaut can see from outer space include:

  • large monuments
  • large bridges over major rivers
  • some major highways
  • the largest buildings in major cities

Manmade objects or things that satellites "see" from outer space include:

  • anything down to street level - but the technology doesn't see everything (yet)
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Stars and nearby galaxies. If you are still within the solar system, you should also be able to see some of the planets. These would be visible to the naked eye.

The sun and the moon, too :]

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I can see stars in the night sky, as well as a passing plane, and a moth being captured by a bat who swooped in and took it.

You can also see the moon, southern cross (if your in Australia), clouds and many other things.

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In outer space, you can easily see the Sun, and the stars; if you know where to look, the planets are also visible. The Earth and Moon, of course.

If you are looking at the Earth, there isn't much that you can see other than lakes, oceans, mountains, Coastlines and clouds; LOTS of clouds. With the naked eye, there are no man-made objects that are visible from space. At night, however, you can easily see all of the lighted cities.

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You can faintly see edge-on the disk that is formed by the stars of our galaxy. You can also see approximately where the center of the galaxy is. Some features of the galaxy are difficult to see clearly because of the astounding amount of stuff that is in it. For example, the part of the sky that is directly behind the central portion of the Milky Way is completely hidden from us. Time lapse Photography can show details in the galaxy that are not visible with the naked eye.

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you see planets and stars and made the milky way

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16y ago

Quite a lot. Check Google Earth and see for yourself.

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Yes, you can see stars in space. It is very difficult to take pictures of stars in space but the human eye can see them.

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gonna say maybe the moon; the earth; stars..asteroids?

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