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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Journey to the Edge: Structure of the Heliosphere - Dr. Eric Zirnstein, Princeton University
Description: Erik Zirnstein is a researcher at Princeton's Space Physics Group who is studying the outermost reaches of our solar system - the place where the heliosphere meets the interstellar medium. But how do you study something so large when you’re so very, very small? We explore the science behind the heliosphere and the interstellar medium, and the cutting-edge technologies that enable us to explore this structures found in this mysterious region of space, the sun as a point source, the slow but steady progress of technological advancements, layer-cake records preserved in the heliotail, and intriguing mysteries of the int...