Neutrinos (blue sky map) in front of an artist’s impression of the Milky Way.
Experience IceCube in the immersive new documentary "Messengers." Credit: Director Jeffrey Zablotny and Trapdoor
The U.S. National Science Foundation renews NSF IceCube operation and maintenance contract
Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to manage and operate the NSF IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The five-year, $53 million cooperative agreement entails the continued operation and maintenance of IceCube for the period 2026-2031. “The generous funding will allow us to…
Using IceCube and HAWC data to investigate the center of our galaxy
The center of our galaxy offers a unique window into how cosmic rays are accelerated to extremely high energies. This region contains a large amount of dense gas and potential accelerators, including a supermassive black hole. Of particular interest to scientists are particles that can be accelerated to petaelectronvolt (PeV)…
Week 38 at the Pole
Images from last week at the Pole don’t quite show the sun as up and visible, but it’s very close. And there’s plenty of light to show off an expanse of sastrugi, above, with a flag line fading into the distance. Last week was busy with detector activities as well…
🥉🚨 Bronze alert - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate event at 2026/09/30 00:44:43 UTC. Find out more at: https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/45787.
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Real-Time Alerts
IceCube is a unique telescope that offers an uninterrupted view of almost the full sky and is capable of detecting neutrinos at the highest energies while still being sensitive to much lower energy neutrinos. The dynamic range of the instrument is from GeV to hundreds of TeV and above, with the observation of cosmic neutrinos at energies approaching 10 PeV. Detection of MeV neutrinos is possible provided they are produced in bursts, as is the case for a Galactic supernova explosion.
IceCube real-time alerts trigger on a series of neutrino signatures with a high chance of identifying a neutrino of astrophysical origin, thus pointing to interesting regions of the sky, and notify the international community when an interesting cosmic phenomenon could be observed.
Outreach for people of all ages
IceCube has a long history of outreach activities that range from small group presentations to large collaborative art-science installations. Capitalizing on the appeal of the South Pole detector and building upon established collaborations, IceCube continues to find new ways to introduce IceCube science to an ever broader audience.
