For fans of the movie series Star Wars the world of Tatoonie is nothing new. It is the home planet of Anakin Skywalker, the primary protagonist of the story. A harsh desert world orbiting twin suns in the galaxy’s Outer Rim, Tatooine is a lawless place ruled by Hutt gangsters. It was clearly science fiction because how could a planet be orbiting two suns? It does not compute! Or does it?!

Apparently Astronomers have found out that 680 light-years from Earth lies a planet orbiting three stars. Yes you  read it correctly – three stars! Initially the guys at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics thought that it was a single star, but changed their observation to a binary star system. And now they have confirmed that it is infact a star going around an orbit of the binary star system.

Add to this magnificent phenomenon a planet the size of Jupiter in our solar system, and you have an actual possible Tatoonie on your hands. The celestial bodies are part of the KELT system and it took the observers roughly about thirty years of close scientific observations to understand that KELT B and KELT C were actually two different stars situated really close to each other.