Students reach for the stars with astronomy toilet paper
MDN wrote:A group of students studying at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has come up with a unique way of teaching people about astronomy -- using toilet paper.
... The four students ... hope to send printed rolls of toilet paper, which describe the life of a star, to schools and public facilities to help people learn about space.
... Printed on the toilet paper is a description of the life of a star: the birth of a "star egg" with gas clouds in space, the nuclear fusion reaction starting its birth, the star's expansion after its fuel hydrogen is burned up, and its death with the diffusion of planetary nebulae...
The students made 100 rolls of the toilet paper using a 400,000-yen grant from a company foundation, and distributed them to planetariums and science museums across Japan at the end of last year...
That's one paper the lecturers won't want you to hand in when it's finished
