Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Sun . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... What if everything you thought you knew was wrong? ... The Sun is at the centre of the Universe, which is only thousands of years old; hence no astronomical object can be millions or billions of light years from the Sun. ... Objects may appear to be huge distances away from the Sun but this is because space itself and all the matter within gets physically smaller as you travel outwards from the Sun. ...