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[Star Wars] What happens to all blaster fire that misses its target in space? More specifically in dogfights.

Edit: Thank you all for the replies, my curiosity was satisfied.
gpt
Blasters of all scales are basically just highly excited gas contained by an energy sheath, that sheath deteriorates and the blaster bolt loses its cohesion (and therefore, all danger) over a relatively short distance.

A capital ship in  a planet's orbit for example could hit and do damage to anything on the planet, but it couldn't hit anything on the planet's moon.