Antarctica Shines
Icy bastion of space science
South Pole Telescope in profile, with sun dog (arc and rainbow), caused by ice crystals.
Meteorite, or ALM, was found on Dec. 5, 1912. "I regard the discovery of the ALM as the start of astronomy in Antarctica, which will thus be 100 next year," said astronomer Michael Burton at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Astronomers are now carrying out cutting-edge research in the South Pole that could shed light on the greatest secrets of the universe. "Amazingly, the South Pole now ranks with the grand research laboratories such as Fermilab and CERN," said theoretical physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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