IceCube Neutrino Observatory

📍Did you know that there’s a specific place at the South Pole known as the “End of the World”? It’s what they call the area past the storage berms out on the ice.

Read more about week 38 here icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍The sun has officially risen at the South Pole. IceCube’s winterovers were out cleaning off and covering up the IceAct field telescopes. It was also time to put out new flags at the ceremonial Pole!

Read more about week 37 ➡️
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📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍The sky at the Pole is starting to get light, but winterover Illya was still able to capture a time-lapse of a total lunar eclipse last week.

Readmore about week 36 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:llya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍It’s getting brighter at the Pole! Easier to see all the accumulated snow that will need to be removed for the IceCube Upgrade deployment.

Read more about week 35 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Though this week was quiet, it may be one of the last for a while. Headlamps are no longer needed outside, and summer activity is ramping up again!

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📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Although the IceCube winterovers dealt with some minor detector issues, the week was generally quiet as the horizon glowed a soft orange, awaiting sunrise.

Read more about week 33 ➡️https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at-the-pole/2025/08/week-33-at-the-pole-5/

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Though it may have been a mostly quiet week at the station, it was also the South Pole Iron Chef competition!

Read more about week 32 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍This week, as the station slowly starts to see more light, the Pole begins its ascent into a Nautical Twilight.

Read more about week 31 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍This week was a quiet one at the pole, but luckily the long nights were greeted by a bright moon. From the photo, it almost looks like the sun! ☀️🌕

Read more about Week 30: icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

We are excited to launch Voices of IceCube! 🎊

In a series of one-on-one interviews, the amazing individuals powering the search for astrophysical neutrinos take you behind the scenes and share their stories. 🧑🔬👩🔬

More info ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/outreach/voi...

📍It's the most wonderful time of the year... in Antarctica!🎄Last week, the whole station gathered to celebrate Christmas in July. The perks of an Antarctic winter!

Read more about Week 29: icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Another week of Antarctic winter down! Last week was quiet, dark, cold, and thanks to our many light-sensitive experiments, ruby red. There’s no place like the Pole!

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📸: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Last week at the Pole consisted of maintenance tasks for IceCube’s winterovers and some emergency response team training.

Read more about week 27 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍A quiet week at the Pole called for one of the station’s favorite complicated board games, Frosthaven!

Read more about week 26 ➡️
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📸: Joe Baines-Holmes, IceCube/NSF

📍The South Pole slipped into recovery mode after a week of midwinter festivities. While things quieted down, the stars were out and auroras danced overhead.

Read more about Week 25 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Midwinter is here!The station exchanged midwinter greeting cards with the other Antarctic stations, enjoyed their traditional dinner, and held a masquerade party afterward!
Read more about week 24➡️https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at-the-pole/2025/06/week-24-at-the-pole-5/
📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍This quiet week saw a bright moon and no auroras in sight. IceCube’s winterovers were busy doing test runs in preparation for the start of the next physics run season.

Read more about week 23 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Aurora-viewing conditions have been especially favorable this week. The South Pole team was treated to stunning displays of color, most notably vibrant green.

Read more about week 22 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

🧊A successful week of IceCube Summer school is wrapping up! This annual weeklong workshop is a crash course on all things IceCube geared toward our newest collaborators.

Thank you to everybody involved! Welcome to IceCube! 👏🎉

📍While the auroras continue to glow brightly outside, inside the station, the winterovers had their monthly stationwide emergency response drill.

Read more about week 21
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📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Our winterovers headed out to the IceCube Lab for an IceACT check. Back at the station, the team was treated to a video call with Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise.

Read more about week 20
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📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Last week everyone enjoyed food, live music, and a variety of fun games and rides at the “South Pole County Fair.”

Read more about week 19
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📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Last week, the Pole was met with some bright green auroras. The winterovers have also been regularly visiting and documenting conditions at the IceCube Upgrade drill camp.

Read more about week 18 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

A group photo of people in front of a building

Another successful collaboration meeting in the books! 🎉 👏

A huge thank you to our host institution, Uppsala University 🇸🇪, the local organizing committee, and our attendees who met to discuss science and exchange ideas.

See you all in Utah for the fall meeting!

📍Despite the quiet week, the skies were ablaze last week at the Pole! The winterovers also celebrated “May the 4th” with a marathon viewing of all nine main Star Wars movies plus Rogue One.

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

Read more about week 17 here ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📍Though last week was fairly quiet, the auroras continue to grow bigger and brighter as our winterovers work on inventory checks among other maintenance tasks.

Read more about week 16 here ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Look at that moon! 🌕 Our winterover Ilya trekked out to the @SPTelescope, where he captured this photo during a quiet week at the Pole.

Read more about week 15 here ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Last week welcomed the first aurora of the season. Winterovers were busy with IceCube Masterclass presentations, some monthly maintenance tasks, and the station celebrated Yuri’s Night!

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📸:Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF

📍Last week at the Pole was fairly quiet except for some firefighter training. The training included some dodgeball in full firefighting gear.

Read more about week 13 here ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

📍Did you know that even though we experience twilight over the course of an hour or so each day, this change stretches over weeks and happens only once a year at the South Pole!?

Read more about week 12 here ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF