Week 43 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The first flight bringing summer crew to the South Pole finally arrived. It was a Basler plane, which brought 12 arrivals but left with three of the [...]

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Week 42 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Things were quieter at the Pole last week than they might have [...]

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Week 41 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Someone has to be first. This season, the first plane to arrive [...]

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Week 40 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The summer season personnel have not yet begun arriving at the Pole, [...]

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Exploring the universe through a new astrophysics video game

A still from Project Hercules. Credit: Sarah Gagnon “Project Hercules” is the latest educational video [...]

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Week 39 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sun is up, but it’s still quite low on the horizon. [...]

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Week 38 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Antarctica has sometimes been referred to as the end of the world. [...]

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Week 37 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Yes, the sun has officically risen at the Pole. But it happened [...]

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UW–Madison team awarded NSF grant to develop cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory

This story was adapted from the WashU and CTAO releases for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [...]

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Week 36 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A total lunar eclipse started off last week at the Pole. IceCube [...]

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Promotions for three WIPAC faculty

This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison physics department. Congratulations to Associate [...]

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Week 35 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF As the sky at the South Pole gets brighter, we can definitely [...]

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Week 34 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sky at the South Pole continues to brighten up before official [...]

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Week 33 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Everything’s blue and rather dark, but not gloomy. There’s just a hint [...]

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Week 32 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF This could the season’s last view of the IceCube Lab with the [...]

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Week 31 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It seems so bright outside at the Pole—but we didn’t miss the [...]

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Students reach for the cosmos in IceCube Cosmic-Ray Summer Program

Participants in front of the Yerkes Observatory. Courtesy of Paolo Desiati Over six weeks in [...]

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Week 30 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Quiet time at the South Pole is good for any number of [...]

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Week 29 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was one of those relatively quiet weeks at the South [...]

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WIPAC at ICRC 2025

The 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), the largest conference in the world for cosmic [...]

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Week 28 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF What’s black and white and red all over? All the images from [...]

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Week 27 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was mostly quiet again at the South Pole. The snow [...]

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