(Jan 29, 2023)
Archiv: Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Years ago at the South Pole, I looked up to the aurora for inspiration through the 6-month winter night. Now I know they’re just as awe inspiring from above. #nofilter
(10.06.2019)
auroras over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
(08.06.2019)
It Came From a Black Hole, and Landed in Antarctica
For the first time, astronomers followed cosmic neutrinos into the fire-spitting heart of a supermassive blazar.
IceCube Neutrino Telescope Detects Origin of Extragalactic Particles
For the first time ever, scientists have determined the cosmic origin of highest-energy neutrinos. A research group led by IceCube scientist Elisa Resconi, spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center SFB1258 at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), provides an important piece of evidence that the particles detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole originate from a galaxy four billion light-years away from Earth.
South Pole Winter 2018
Here‘s a larger view of the greeting card photo, which was taken on the observation deck above DA by Johannes Werthebach. More than one cardboard dinosaur has been sighted at Pole this winter.
IceCube neutrinos point to long-sought cosmic ray accelerator
An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme environments in the universe to Earth.
The observations, made by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station and confirmed by telescopes around the globe and in Earth’s orbit, help resolve a more than a century-old riddle about what sends subatomic particles such as neutrinos and cosmic rays speeding through the universe.
Scientists capture mysterious ‘ghost particle’ in a giant ice cube in ‘triumph’ that changes how we see the universe
Scientists have captured a ghost-like subatomic particle on Earth, helping to solve a mystery baffling scientists for 100 years.
The so-called “ghost particle” was trapped by researchers in a giant ice cube at the South Pole.
It’s actually a high-energy neutrino, and is the first of its type ever detected by scientists.
Importantly, researchers believe they’ve tracked its likely source: a supermassive black hole that emits light and cosmic rays.