Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF Now that’s a nice sun halo! It seems to occupy the whole [...]
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Busy, busy,…busy! There was a lot going on at the Pole last [...]
Extremely energetic charged particles called cosmic rays are accelerated by violent cosmic objects before raining [...]
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week at the Pole there was a mix of activities. First [...]
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It was on the quiet side last week at the Pole. Weather [...]
Joe Baines-Holmes, IceCube/NSF Business as usual for the start of summer at the South Pole. [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Summer season at the Pole starts out slowly, with the first small [...]
Joe (left) and Ilya (right) at the ceremonial South Pole. Credit: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Out with the old, in with the new. It’s that time of [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF They’re back! The planes, that is—and the people. It happens every year. [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF More incoming flights means more freshies! They get pretty excited at the [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Last week was time for a group photo! The sun is up [...]
This story is adapted from the HAWC Collaboration press release. Microquasars—compact regions surrounding a black hole with [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…no, wait, it is a plane. [...]
WIPAC is back with our IceCube display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, WI! [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF All around the South Pole, flags are used as markers—they can designate [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Finally, the sun has officially risen at the South Pole. It’s manifesting [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Snow at the Pole—in winter, it’s a lot like dirt swept under [...]
This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison International Division. Among the University [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF You might think that the IceCube Lab, looking so impressive in the [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The South Pole sunrise is still not official, but tell that to [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF It’s that time of year again, when the sun rises at the [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF The South Pole’s “Polympics” definitely builds some fun into the competitions. There [...]
Tom Wetzel, VMF/NSF Let the games begin! South Pole’s version of the Olympics—the “Polympics”—has several [...]
Jim Madsen. Credit: Michael Hoch Jim Madsen, interim director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF The atmosphere at the Pole was a bit more relaxed last week. [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF It was back-to-back celebrations last week at the South Pole. First up [...]
This story is adapted from a University of Wisconsin–Madison news article. Dan Hooper, PhD, has been [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Last week’s continued good weather brought many of the South Pole’s winterovers [...]
Last month, the 19th annual SIAM Physics Congress was held in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Last week was a relatively quiet one at the Pole, indoors and [...]
Kalvin Moschkau, IceCube/NSF This group is all smiles, so it looks like they survived their [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF The window of good weather that IceCube’s winterovers were waiting for arrived, [...]
Kalvin Moschkau, IceCube/NSF You may have seen one midwinter at the Pole, but that doesn’t [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF That’s the IceCube Lab after dark, showing off its form as it’s [...]
Cosmic rays, the highest energy particles of the universe, bombard Earth from all directions and [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF The photos from last week are all indoor shots, but clearly auroras [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The moon from the previous week is long gone—with the darker skies, [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The moon returned to the Pole last week, and bright enough so [...]
Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Photography This year, IceCube collaborator and Harvard University physics professor Carlos [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF With record-breaking winds last week, the South Pole station spent a few [...]
This story is modified from one originally published by AAS Nova. Where do the highest-energy particles in [...]
Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless particles that travel cosmological distances unhindered, acting as messengers that [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF There they are—those big, expansive, colorful auroras that seem to fill the [...]
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF A very large moon halo dominated the sky, here seen above the [...]
This story was originally published by UW Physics. Ke Fang, assistant professor of physics and WIPAC investigator, has received [...]
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF When it’s really cold outside—like with temperatures approaching -100°F!—it’s nice to have [...]
This story was originally published by University Communications. University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist Francis Halzen has [...]
