Astronomy Without A Telescope ? Astronomy On Ice

href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ice_Cube_Aerial_zoom.jpg">class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-63794" src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ice_Cube_Aerial_zoom-580x385.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="385" />Well, here's a bit of a first for AWAT, because this is a story about a href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">telescope. But it's not your average telescope, being composed of a huge chunk of Antarctic ice with a very large cosmic ray muon filter attached to the back of it, which is called the href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Earth.

Commenced in 2005, the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory">IceCube Neutrino Observatory is now approaching completion with recent installation of a key component href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.2263">DeepCore. With DeepCore, the Antarctic observatory is now able to observe the southern sky, as well as the northern sky.(...)
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