NBC News - 11/21/13, Alan Boyle
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The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is the world's largest neutrino detector. Its computer collect raw data on neutrino activity from sensors buried in a kilometer-wide cube of ice. The sensors look for the flashes of light that are emitted when neutrinos strike.
A collection of 28 weird high-energy neutrino hits from far beyond the solar system represents the beginning of a new age of astronomy — and the new neutrino astronomers say they already have more data yet to report.
"This is something we've launched now," the University of Wisconsin's Francis Halzen, principal investigator for the international IceCube observatory in Antarctica, told NBC News. "We're on a mission, so I don't think there's any time for relaxing."
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