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Read through this and managed to reproduce it! Everything clicked!‼️

1: Light blue is the back layer (texture with sun transparency), purple is the front layer (texture with transparency)Photo
2: From the front, Jupiter is naturally in frontPhoto
3: Looking up from below, the back layer (sun) renders in frontPhoto
4: Setting the sun to Alpha Masking correctly renders it in the backPhoto