Category Archives: News

Week 40 at the Pole

While they wait at the Pole for the first arriving flights of the season, there [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

The main entrance to the South Pole station is known as Destination Alpha—this image shows [...]

Mountain-top observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object

For the first time, an international collaboration of scientists has detected extremely high-energy gamma rays, [...]

Week 38 at the Pole

The equinox occurred last week, and the sun has finally risen above the horizon. The [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

Just because the sun’s coming up, doesn’t mean it’s getting warmer yet. In fact, they’ve [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

As the sun rises and brightens the sky, thoughts turn to the arrival of summer [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

The satellite dome sits frosted over as it waits for the sunrise—here it’s shown backlit [...]

The LAB3 exhibition: collaborative artwork, interdisciplinary conversations

WIPAC and the Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL) are kicking off the school year with [...]

Week 34

IceCube winterover Johannes’s camera withstood a time-lapse session outdoors last week—a little frosty looking afterward [...]

Week 33 at the Pole

False alarm from week 32—aurora viewing remained in full force last week at the Pole. [...]