Starts With A Bang podcast #116 — Disintegrating exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025

Believe it or not, we’ve actually caught a few exoplanets doing exactly this, and we’ve got the JWST spectra in hand for one of them now, teaching us, for the first time, what a planetary interior is made of outside of our own Solar System. I’m so pleased to have the first author from that 2025 study, soon-to-be Dr. Nick Tusay, as our guest on this edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, as we take a look at the most extreme exoplanetary systems ever discovered!

Starts With A Bang is written by Ethan Siegel, Ph.D., author of (affiliate links following) Beyond The Galaxy, Treknology, and The Littlest Girl Goes Inside An Atom. His first National Geographic book, Infinite Cosmos, is out now!