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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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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Week 26 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF There’s a lot of snow around at the South Pole for a [...]
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Week 25 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week, things were quiet for IceCube’s winteovers as well as for [...]
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Week 24 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Wash, rinse, and repeat. You have two seasons at the Pole, summer [...]
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Week 23 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week’s outdoor photographs from the Pole have gone from colorful to [...]
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Karle, Lu lead team awarded Research Forward funding
This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison physics department. The Office of [...]
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Week 22 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF To really enjoy auroras, you want a nice dark sky. And in [...]
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Week 21 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It was a rather quiet week at the Pole. Not in the [...]
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Week 20 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Sometimes it feels almost as if the auroras are trying to say [...]
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Week 19 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Just as it’s getting dark, the moon appears and brightens things back [...]
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Week 18 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya [...]
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Week 17 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was [...]
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Week 16 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF And then…the auroras start to get bigger and brighter. Unfortunately, the weather [...]
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HAWC detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding middle-aged pulsars
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars—remnants of massive star explosions—that blast electromagnetic radiation at regular [...]
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Week 15 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week had a mix of quiet days and less quiet days [...]
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Week 14 at the Pole
Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF Aww, that first aurora of the season—often rather light and wispy, here [...]
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Week 13 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. Even the outdoor photographs [...]
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Week 12 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sun is now below the horizon, but there’s still plenty of [...]
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Week 11 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The lowering sun at the South Pole made for some great photos [...]
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Week 10 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A nice halo surrounds the lowering sun at the Pole, with some [...]
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WIPAC hosts after-school program for the 12th consecutive year
Last week saw the conclusion of the 12th edition of IceCube After School, an annual [...]
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Week 9 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ah, the waning days of summer, when the shadows cast by the [...]
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Week 8 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A small plane found itself parked in behind some other aircraft at [...]
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Week 7 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The station is technically closed for the winter season, but there are [...]
Read MoreAnother successful field season for IceCube Upgrade at the South Pole
Since November of last year, a team of IceCube engineers and scientists have been hard [...]
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Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade at the South Pole
The IceCube field team gathered at the ceremonial South Pole on New Year’s Eve. Credit: [...]
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Week 6 at the Pole
Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF And just like that, summer’s over and winter begins. At the Pole [...]
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Week 5 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A white rainbow? Well, yes—it’s also called a fogbow! Fogbows are rarer [...]
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Probing the connection between the highest-energy astrophysical neutrinos and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
Neutrinos are weakly interacting particles that are able to travel undeflected through the cosmos. The [...]
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Week 4 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF What’s so funny? Who knows, but a few IceCube folks shared a [...]
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Week 3 at the Pole
Matthew Petroff, BICEP/NSF This week’s aerial photo from the South Pole features a 360-degree view [...]
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Week 2 at the Pole
Michael Rayne, ASC-ARFF An aeriel view of the IceCube Lab also shows the IceCube Upgrade [...]
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Week 1 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week at the Pole continued to be busy with lots of [...]
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