Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Giant Planets Orbiting Tiny Stars - Dr. Edward Bryant, UCL Space & Climate Physics
Description: Dr Edward Bryant is a Research Fellow in Exoplanets Characterisation at University College London. His research has uncovered the existence of giant planets in orbit around low-mass stars, potentially upsetting our current paradigms of solar system formation. We discuss the detection of planets in strange places, the odd distribution of heavy stuff in our solar system, and the art of piercing the veil of uncertainty that hangs over our understanding of the cosmos
Check out Bryant’s exoplanet paper here: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/521/3/3663/7069338
Check out the SciTech Daily article on it here: https://scitechdaily.com/challenging-widely-accepted-theory-of-planetary-formation-small-stars-may-host-bigger-planets-than-thought/
Re...