Winter at the Whipple Observatory: Leslie Taylor’s four months commissioning the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Leslie Taylor spent four months in Arizona recently. Her research [...]
UW–Madison scientists play instrumental role in proving viability of innovative gamma-ray telescope
Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab [...]
Week 20 at the Pole
It’s cold at the South Pole, no matter how you slice and dice it. And [...]
Week 19 at the Pole
Last week was a relatively quiet week at the Pole. Well, quiet as far as [...]
Week 18 at the Pole
The recent photos from the Pole reflect a peacefulness outside, with the impending darkness of [...]
UW–Madison astrophysicists donate computing resources to aid COVID-19 research
Some of WIPAC's computing resources are beingused to simulate protein folding of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible [...]
Week 17 at the Pole
The skies are getting darker as the period of twilight comes to an end. As [...]
Physics department honors three WIPAC graduate students
Every year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Physics Department offers a number of awards to their [...]
Week 16 at the Pole
Now that they’re here (they = auroras), we’ll likely see a lot of them. Which [...]
Week 15 at the Pole
There’s a first time for everything, including seeing an aurora waft across the winter sky [...]