The Cosmic Neutrino Era — Part 4: 2023 — The Milky Way galactic plane
For the first time, humanity has seen its own galaxy in neutrinos. IceCube's 2023 announcement: a diffuse glow of cosmic neutrinos tracing the galactic disk at 4.5σ significance.
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Sources of Neutrinos — Part 6: Cosmic and galactic neutrinos and the high-energy sky
How astrophysical neutrinos with TeV to PeV energies trace the extreme accelerators of the universe — and how IceCube made cosmic neutrino astronomy a working science.
Neutrino History — Part 6: Galactic glow, NGC 1068, looking forward (2020–present)
Final part of the chronological history series. NGC 1068 joins TXS as a confirmed source in 2022. IceCube detects our Milky Way's galactic plane in 2023. JUNO begins. The next round of experiments takes shape.
The Milky Way's neutrino glow: how IceCube saw our own galaxy in 2023
After ten years of cosmic neutrino measurements, IceCube produced the first observation of neutrinos coming from our own Milky Way — a diffuse galactic glow at energies a million times higher than any star can produce.