Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Both Sides Now

PSU grad student Nur Filiz Ak led a project that watched clouds (of a sort) clear out from in between us and some distant black holes... cool to be part of that. http://www.sdss3.org/press/thewind.php

And we just submitted a proposal to look at clouds that have appeared in quasar spectra.  We think the clouds are moving into and out of our line of sight.  If approved, our recent proposal means we'll have looked at the leading and trailing sides of clouds, hence the title of this post...

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