Exoplanets in neighboring orbits have radically different sizes, masses | Ars Technica

The Solar System is clearly divided: rocky terrestrial planets close in to the Sun, gaseous Jovian planets farther out, icy Kuiper Belt objects more distant still. However, exoplanetary systems—planets orbiting other stars—commonly violate those divisions. A whole class of exoplanets known as “hot Jupiters” are large planets with orbits smaller than Mercury’s, indicating that planet formation may not follow the same rules in all cases.

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