As planets form in the swirling gas and dust around young stars, there seems to be a sweet spot where most of the large, Jupiter-like gas giants congregate, centered around the orbit where Jupiter sits today in our own solar system.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-jupiter-like-exoplanets-sweet-planetary.html