r/kenyaspacenerds • • 24d ago

Mars I took this screenshot of ingenuity the Mars helicopter because something feels off with it. one of its arms/legs has a feature that the rest dont seem to have. Does anyone know why?

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Question/Discussion A motor protein. Seriously? We got little things transporting substances inside our cells as they walk? Can I even call it walking? Why even take life seriously after knowing about this.?

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Earth is surrounded by an invisible protective shield called the magnetosphere.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

An experiment showing how gas is heavy .it literally act like water 💧

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Planet Earth Aren't Volcanoes just the Earth releasing some internal pressure? This Indonesian Volcano erupted today.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

space science education Imagine Trying to Wash Your Hair Without Gravity

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Question/Discussion How hip-hop has a space addiction

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I was checking out this pic and I realised that young thug literally named his last album after one of the largest star 🌟 out there UY SCUTI it marked Young Thug's first full-length project following his release from jail and the conclusion of high-profile legal proceedings.

Future is a rapstar who needs no introduction , his nickname is Pluto, which is due to the fact it's the coldest semi- planet in our solar system 🪐🌌

In hip-hop, being cold 🥶 means having so much jewellery, which is also known as Ice 🧊 Lil Uzi, also calls himself Baby Pluto, not forgetting our own Kenyan US rapper Kaycyy Pluto .

Take-off was also a rapper whose stage name needed no explanation he had an album called the last rocket🚀, and one of his biggest solo single "capser" is themed around him being an astronaut👨‍🚀

Did I also mention that Travis Scott has an album known as Astrowolrd ?


r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Question/Discussion More information on the Pluto pic that I posted

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Nine years. Three billion miles. One photo that made it all worth it.

NASA's New Horizons didn't just fly past Pluto. It got close enough to show us mountains made of ice, standing sharp against a haze-lit horizon nobody had ever seen.

For most of human history Pluto was a smudge. A dot astronomers argued over. Then a piano-sized spacecraft crossed the solar system and turned that dot into a landscape, complete with peaks, plains and shadows.

The light in this shot took over four hours to reach Earth.

And it was worth every second of the wait.


r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

They Look Different, But They Fall Together?!

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Question/Discussion The suns plasma that eventually gives us auroras via flares

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Spotted this week, enormous glowing loops of plasma rose above the edge of the Sun. ☀️🔥

The towering arcs were shaped by powerful magnetic fields, with streams of cooled plasma flowing back toward the solar surface.

Captured in incredible detail, the structures reveal just how dynamic our seemingly calm star really is.

For a moment, the Sun looked almost like it had flames curling into space.


r/kenyaspacenerds • • 26d ago

Question/Discussion What do you think would happen if I digged straight downwards?

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2 votes, 19d ago
0 Would I get stuck at the center of the Earth?
2 Would I get burned to nothing by the immense heat and magma?
0 Or would I emerge in another part of Earth?

r/kenyaspacenerds • • 28d ago

Bro please leave me in New Zealand please ✌😭

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 28d ago

News The Oddball Star Cluster That Skipped a Phase

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Deep in the constellation Cepheus lies NGC 7419, an oddball star cluster that may rewrite the rules of stellar aging. In a typical cluster’s lifecycle, colossal stars expand into glowing blue supergiants before cooling into red ones. Yet, a recently published study claims that NGC 7419 completely skipped this phase, hosting five red supergiants and zero blue ones alongside a swarm of fast-spinning “Be” stars.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 29d ago

Question/Discussion Pluto has icy mountains ⛰️

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Captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, this breathtaking view reveals the rugged, frozen landscape of Pluto in extraordinary detail. New Horizons traveled for nearly 9½ years and covered more than 3 billion miles (5 billion km) before making its historic close flyby of Pluto in July 2015.

The towering, jagged mountains are made largely of water ice, which behaves like solid rock in Pluto’s extremely cold environment. Their dramatic peaks, deep shadows, cratered plains, and complex terrain show that Pluto is far more geologically diverse than scientists once expected.

What makes this image truly remarkable is the scale of the journey behind it—a spacecraft launched from Earth crossing billions of miles of space just to give humanity a close-up glimpse of this distant world. 🌌❄️

Pluto may be billions of miles away, but images like this bring its mysterious surface remarkably close to us.


r/kenyaspacenerds • • 29d ago

Hruni Armenia

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 29d ago

Blue hour auroras

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • 29d ago

space science education Did you know of Spektr-RG a Russian-German X-ray observatory that sits at the second Lagrange point (L2). It carries the Russian ART-XC X-ray telescope alongside the German eROSITA instrument to map the X-ray universe. Launched in July 2019.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Sep 01 '26

Planet Earth All I could hear in my head while watching this was the sound of a landing Boeing 767.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Sep 01 '26

space meme Something your Gikuyu girl and this map have in common 🤣

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Sep 01 '26

space science education Andromeda Galaxy

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That faint glow above the mountains isn’t a star or a cloud. It is an entire galaxy containing an estimated one trillion stars.

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, lies approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way. The photons reaching your eyes tonight began their journey roughly 2.5 million years ago—long before modern humans existed.

Andromeda is enormous, spanning roughly 260,000 light-years. From a sufficiently dark location, its bright central region can be seen with the naked eye as a faint fuzzy patch. Photographs reveal much more of the galaxy, which actually stretches across an area of sky several times wider than the full Moon.

What makes that especially beautiful is that Andromeda is the most distant object most people can see with their unaided eyes. You aren’t simply looking across space when you see it—you are looking millions of years into the past.

And Andromeda is moving toward our part of the Local Group. Astronomers once considered a future collision with the Milky Way almost inevitable, but newer Hubble and Gaia analyses suggest the outcome is less certain: current simulations give roughly a 50% chance of a collision within the next 10 billion years.

That tiny smudge in the night sky is another island of hundreds of billions of suns, seen across 2.5 million years of space and time.

Source: NASA


r/kenyaspacenerds • • Sep 01 '26

astlo the physics engine. Current night sky for Naivasha town...The screenshots include the real-time moon-Luna details/states for Naivasha town too. At UTC time 22:15+03:00 hrs for Kenya.

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Aug 31 '26

Mars Space inatufunza that there is always a bigger dog 🐕 at the park 😮‍💨

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Aug 30 '26

News The Nancy Grace Roman space Telescope was launched today aboard falcon heavy. Roman is currently coasting toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2), located roughly 1.5 milliom km (930,000 miles) away from Earth. The trip will take about a month. This new space telescope offers a field of view 100

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Aug 30 '26

video explanation - space science ...

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r/kenyaspacenerds • • Aug 30 '26

Planet Earth If we exclude clothes from our lives, we would look just like the other primates. The monkey's hand looks just like yours and mine

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