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Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Are Weird Planets in the Solar System?

In most cases, when you have a big gas giant that falls towards your star, it ends in the way you would expect. But our solar system is unusual for keeping this big gas giant and having it back in the outer solar in a stable way. After all the gas and dust have cleared out, now jupiter can go back out to past the ice line and hang out for billions of years. So do other solar systems without hot jupiters also have a saturn equivalent? I don't think we know the answer to that because these planets are much harder to spot than ours.

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