... Giant outer exoplanets are rare . ... This artist's concept shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits near its fiery hot star. ... A stronomers who used powerful telescopes in Arizona and Chile in a survey for planets around nearby stars have discovered extrasolar planets more massive than Jupiter are extremely rare in other outer solar systems. ... Scientists have written more than 2,000 scholarly papers about these giant Jupiter-like planets within a few Earth-to-sun distances of their stars....