Eva Laplace wins communication prize for software that shows life cycle of stars

PhD candidate Eva Laplace of the Anton Pannekoek Institute will receive the ET Outreach Award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is awarded the communication prize for her project that portrays the life of stars in an intuitive way. Until now, all teaching methods use hard to comprehend diagrams, such as the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, which is more than a hundred years old.