Briley Lewis (she/her) is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. Candidate/NSF Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles studying Astronomy & Astrophysics. Follow her on Twitter @briles_34 or visit her website www.briley-lewis.com.
ArticleBody:At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the Antarctic ice. Its job? Catching some of the hardest-to-pin-down particles from space: neutrinos. Despite the fact that Antarctica is extraordinarily difficult to get to, astronomers love it.
The universe also makes some neutrinos out in deep space, known as astrophysical neutrinos to distinguish from atmospheric neutrinos created in air showers. Green auroras in fisheye view of IceCube Lab. Credit: IceCube Things like supernova explosions and the solar wind can create cosmic rays with enough energy to make neutrons rain down on Earth. However, “at higher energies, where we are looking with neutrinos, we simply have no idea,” says Whitehorn.
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