many of the planets that have been discovered orbiting other stars are "hot Jupiters", or planets the size of Jupiter but that orbit very close to their stars. Our nebular theory of the formation of the Solar System says that planets like Jupier can't form near their star, so how did these "hot Jupiters" come to be as we see them? Why are there no "hot Jupiters" in our own Solar System?

I know that our Jovian planets form in the outer of our solar system and away from the sun, but I don't understand why extraplanet like these form near closer to their star?

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