Did you know planets don't technically orbit the Sun? Instead, everything orbits the Solar System center of mass, even the Sun! While the Sun contains 99.8% of the Solar System's mass Jupiter holds most of the rest (Saturn is 2nd), so the Sun actually orbits Jupiter slightly —
Here is the motion of the Sun's center as viewed from the bottom of screen to illustrate this works in 3d as well (the Sun doesn't move up/down much, but it ain't nothing)
The planets do orbit the Sun of course, we are just being pedantic about the situation. The natural thinking is that we orbit the Sun's center, but that very rarely happens, i.e. it's very rare for the solar system's center of mass to align with the Sun's center
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