Yearly Archives: 2020

Week 42 at the Pole

The scene outside the South Pole station—now that there’s sunlight to see by—is rather changed [...]

IceCube at ScienceWriters 2020

Like the vast majority of conferences and meetings this year, ScienceWriters 2020 went virtual in [...]

Week 41 at the Pole

Sunbathing at the South Pole? Well, why not! The sun is out and there’s a [...]

How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?

Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]

Week 40 at the Pole

The IceCube Lab has accumulated quite a bit of snow over the winter. And that [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

Now that the sun is up 24/7 at the South Pole, it’s hard for the [...]

Week 38 at the Pole

The sun is up but still low on the horizon, casting long shadows, as seen [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

As the long winter comes to an end with the sunrise at the South Pole, [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

Last week was somewhat busy for the IceCube detector. Otherwise, the sun continues its slow [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

What did we just say about the dawn sky at the South Pole? That it [...]