The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya captured this image of the sky full of bright green auroras. IceCube winterover Joe was also taking aurora photos, but with his phone, as in the image below. The phone camera photo is supposedly closer to the impression given when seen with the […]
The results of the twelfth edition of the IceCube Impact Awards were announced during IceCube’s spring collaboration meeting dinner at the Uppsala Castle in Uppsala, Sweden. During the ceremony, IceCube spokesperson Erin O’Sullivan gave each recipient a certificate and mug to commemorate their achievements. The awardees are Christoph Günther (RWTH Aachen University); Sarah Mechbal (DESY); […]
Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was an otherwise rather quiet week for IceCube’s winterovers. But they made the most of their time outdoors. Besides the light in the skies (from auroras and from…stars!), a flood of red light illuminated the space outside the storage arches as heavy equipment worked […]
And then…the auroras start to get bigger and brighter. Unfortunately, the weather last week at the Pole was mostly bad, clearing up only at the end of the week. That was enough, though, for IceCube winterover Ilya to get outside and capture a few nice aurora photos. It often happens this way, with the first […]
Last week had a mix of quiet days and less quiet days at the Pole. There was a monthly emergency response team drill as well as various IceCube detector tasks. IceCube winterover Ilya also trekked out to the South Pole Telescope, where he captured the above photo, which shows a bright moon nicely centered above […]
Aww, that first aurora of the season—often rather light and wispy, here stretching across a sky that is still lit up to some degree. But it’s exciting nonetheless, holding the promise of more auroras to come as the winter darkness sets in. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterovers were rather busy, mostly with giving […]
Observing tau neutrino candidates, producing the first image of our galaxy using a neutrino lens, pinpointing an active galaxy as a neutrino source—these are just a few of IceCube’s exciting results Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ignacio Taboada has witnessed during his four years as IceCube spokesperson. Fast forward to today, and Taboada is nearing […]
Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. Even the outdoor photographs have a sort of “quiet” and reflective feel to them, as the sunlight continues to wane. Indoors, the quiet was surely broken, with firefighter training on the schedule. The training was carried out by mixing some fun into the work—dodgeball in the gym, […]
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive astroparticle physics experiment located at the South Pole, is the subject of the final chapter in a new documentary, “Messengers,” from Canadian director Jeffrey Zablotny. The film is a poetic, immersive exploration of three neutrino detectors: SNO+ in Canada, Super-Kamiokande in Japan, and IceCube at the South Pole. The […]
The sun is now below the horizon, but there’s still plenty of light. Most of us experience this period of twilight, where the sun transitions from day to night, over the course of an hour or so each day, but at the South Pole this change stretches over weeks and happens only once a year. […]