Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos—tiny, ghostlike astronomical messengers. In an article to be published tomorrow, June 30, […]
For the first time, an international team of scientists presents evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way. The results were published on June 30, 2023 in Science (link). See the press release here. […]
For those who spend a year living at the South Pole, they are treated to glorious night skies in the winter season. Last week was a case in point, with displays of bright auroras, lots of stars, and glimpses of the Milky Way. Winterovers also get to experience a multitude of South Pole station traditions […]
Last week at the Pole it was all about the sky. There were days with perfectly clear skies and some of the brightest auroras of the season. If the photo above seems to suggest a little wizardry action behind the aurora, it might be a result of watching too much Harry Potter—the station organized a […]
Introduction This data release accompanies results submitted to Science describing the observation of neutrinos from the galactic plane. For further details, refer to the IceCube publication DOI: 10.1126/science.adc9818 Data release Suggested citation for this dataset: IceCube Collaboration (2023): Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane – Public data release. Dataset. DOI: 10.21234/8v5d-rn16 Click here […]
It’s getting close to midwinter, when people in Antarctica, and other places, celebrate the southern winter solstice. In anticipation, South Pole station personnel took some group photos (above is one of them) to use as midwinter greeting cards, traditionally shared with other Antarctic stations. Last week at the Pole, IceCube’s winterovers spent a lot of […]
The tenth edition of the IceCube Masterclass hosted over 250 students across 20 research institutions in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. The masterclasses were held between the months of January and May, with many of them returning to an in-person program. This year, Queens University in Canada joined the […]
While most of us up north are enjoying longer and brighter days as summertime gears up, the South Pole remains settled in winter. The image above of frosted and snowed-in IceCube drill towers is a wintry scene indeed. Though, to be fair, the drill towers were rather snow covered in summer as well. (Here’s an […]
Last month, the IceCube Collaboration concluded their “IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice” Kaggle competition that launched in January, 2023. Participants were challenged to devise a machine-learning solution that could quickly and accurately process a large number of events to identify the direction that neutrinos came from. Over the course of three months, 11,000 solutions […]
