Question

Is it possible to have 3 stars within a single solar system?

Answer 1

"Surely not impossible, but it seems unlikely." Although the solar system has only one sun, most stars like Earth's sun are binaries— two stars orbiting each other as a pair. Increasingly, astronomers are discovering planetary systems with twin suns (like Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars")

Star systems with two stars are known as “binary” systems, and these stars co-orbit eachother. In fact, the closest solar system to ours, Alpha Centauri, has three stars all co-orbiting one another.