Astronomers peer at 'layer cake' levels of a would-be star to understand super Jupiters

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Our cosmic block is full of neighbors that we know very little about, but scientists have come up with creative ways to get a peak at the layers of one particular type of planet.

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"This study might whet your appetite for exoplanets."

My observation. Indeed exoplanets are very interesting. This site, The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (exoplanet.eu) lists 606 exoplanets with masses >= 1.1 Mjup. Orbital distances range from 0.00263 au out to 9900 au from the host star.

NASA Exoplanet Archive (caltech.edu), lists 812 large exoplanets or super-jupiters. The orbital distances range 0.0044 au out to 3500 au from the host stars. There is plenty now in documenting large exoplanets to chew on.