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Week 20 at the Pole
May 30, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Sometimes it feels almost as if the auroras are trying to say [...]

Week 19 at the Pole
May 22, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Just as it’s getting dark, the moon appears and brightens things back [...]

Week 18 at the Pole
May 16, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya [...]

Week 17 at the Pole
May 9, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was [...]

Week 16 at the Pole
May 2, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF And then…the auroras start to get bigger and brighter. Unfortunately, the weather [...]

Significance map of the anti-Galactic plane region, showing Geminga and TeV halos used in the analysis (marked with stars).
HAWC detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding middle-aged pulsars
May 1, 2025

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars—remnants of massive star explosions—that blast electromagnetic radiation at regular [...]

Week 15 at the Pole
April 25, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week had a mix of quiet days and less quiet days [...]

Week 14 at the Pole
April 17, 2025

Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF Aww, that first aurora of the season—often rather light and wispy, here [...]

Week 13 at the Pole
April 11, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. Even the outdoor photographs [...]

Week 12 at the Pole
April 3, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sun is now below the horizon, but there’s still plenty of [...]

Week 11 at the Pole
March 28, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The lowering sun at the South Pole made for some great photos [...]

Week 10 at the Pole
March 21, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A nice halo surrounds the lowering sun at the Pole, with some [...]

A group of people in front of a chalkboard
WIPAC hosts after-school program for the 12th consecutive year
March 14, 2025

Last week saw the conclusion of the 12th edition of IceCube After School, an annual [...]

Week 9 at the Pole
March 14, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ah, the waning days of summer, when the shadows cast by the [...]

Week 8 at the Pole
March 7, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A small plane found itself parked in behind some other aircraft at [...]

Week 7 at the Pole
February 28, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The station is technically closed for the winter season, but there are [...]

Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade at the South Pole
February 25, 2025

Since November of last year, a team of IceCube engineers and scientists have been hard [...]

Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade at the South Pole
February 25, 2025

The IceCube field team gathered at the ceremonial South Pole on New Year’s Eve. Credit: [...]

Week 6 at the Pole
February 21, 2025

Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF And just like that, summer’s over and winter begins. At the Pole [...]

Week 5 at the Pole
February 14, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A white rainbow? Well, yes—it’s also called a fogbow! Fogbows are rarer [...]

Probing the connection between the highest-energy astrophysical neutrinos and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
February 12, 2025

Neutrinos are weakly interacting particles that are able to travel undeflected through the cosmos. The [...]

Week 4 at the Pole
February 6, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF What’s so funny? Who knows, but a few IceCube folks shared a [...]

Week 3 at the Pole
February 3, 2025

Matthew Petroff, BICEP/NSF This week’s aerial photo from the South Pole features a 360-degree view [...]

Week 2 at the Pole
January 27, 2025

Michael Rayne, ASC-ARFF An aeriel view of the IceCube Lab also shows the IceCube Upgrade [...]

Week 1 at the Pole
January 23, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week at the Pole continued to be busy with lots of [...]

Week 53 at the Pole
January 10, 2025

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Wasn’t last week the last week of the year at the South [...]

Week 52 at the Pole
January 3, 2025

John Kelley, IceCube/NSF The last week of the year at the South Pole was as [...]

Week 51 at the Pole
December 27, 2024

Kayla DeHolton, IceCube/NSF Another week, another sun halo—this time complete with sun dogs! The ceremonial [...]

Week 50 at the Pole
December 19, 2024

Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF Now that’s a nice sun halo! It seems to occupy the whole [...]

Week 49 at the Pole
December 13, 2024

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Busy, busy,…busy! There was a lot going on at the Pole last [...]

IceCube observation of the cosmic-ray anisotropy in the Southern Hemisphere
December 9, 2024

Extremely energetic charged particles called cosmic rays are accelerated by violent cosmic objects before raining [...]

Week 48 at the Pole
December 5, 2024

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week at the Pole there was a mix of activities. First [...]

Week 47 at the Pole
November 26, 2024

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It was on the quiet side last week at the Pole. Weather [...]

Week 46 at the Pole
November 19, 2024

Joe Baines-Holmes, IceCube/NSF Business as usual for the start of summer at the South Pole. [...]

Week 45 at the Pole
November 14, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Summer season at the Pole starts out slowly, with the first small [...]

Meet IceCube’s 2024-2025 winterovers, Joe and Ilya!
November 14, 2024

Joe (left) and Ilya (right) at the ceremonial South Pole. Credit: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The [...]

Week 44 at the Pole
November 8, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Out with the old, in with the new. It’s that time of [...]

Week 43 at the Pole
November 1, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF They’re back! The planes, that is—and the people. It happens every year. [...]

Week 42 at the Pole
October 28, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF More incoming flights means more freshies! They get pretty excited at the [...]

Week 41 at the Pole
October 21, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Last week was time for a group photo! The sun is up [...]

HAWC detection of an ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble around a microquasar
October 17, 2024

This story is adapted from the HAWC Collaboration press release. Microquasars—compact regions surrounding a black hole with [...]

Week 40 at the Pole
October 14, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…no, wait, it is a plane. [...]

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WIPAC and IceCube are back at Holiday Fantasy in Lights
October 8, 2024

WIPAC is back with our IceCube display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, WI! [...]

Week 39 at the Pole
October 7, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF All around the South Pole, flags are used as markers—they can designate [...]

Week 38 at the Pole
September 27, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Finally, the sun has officially risen at the South Pole. It’s manifesting [...]

Week 37 at the Pole
September 24, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Snow at the Pole—in winter, it’s a lot like dirt swept under [...]

WIPAC agreement with Thai partners signals enthusiasm for future collaborations
September 17, 2024

This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison International Division. Among the University [...]

Week 36 at the Pole
September 13, 2024

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF You might think that the IceCube Lab, looking so impressive in the [...]

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