Cool. Space is really cool. Keep up the good work Astronomers. Love the cool things you find.
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Given there are known polar planetary discs, and this orbit seems stable, wouldn't that suggest that polar systems are formed because of some past interaction between the two stars that disrupted them from the original plane of formation?
The planet could be a capture.
Possibly. I didn't dive in deeper to see if they even know the shape of the orbit. From my understanding a capture is very unlikely to have a near circular orbit. But planetary discs definitely aren't captures, so something changed the stars in those.
I wonder if its a product of colliding galaxies?
Isn't that literally the premise of the Three Body Problem?
The 3 body problem has no general solution. This would be a special case solution.
Ah, yes, I just read the title again!
Not exactly. In the novel/tv show the Three Bodies are stars that are interacting with a fourth object, the planet Trisolaris.
Because the movements of the three suns are unpredictable, they never know when the climate of the planet will be habitable.
Yes, I remember now that I thought "that's a four body problem" when I read it.