ok, so I was actually kinda wrong because the light reaches the planet but as seen in the picture below it is an orange glow that changes the appearance of the planets (makes a blue planet yellow for instance)
so I guess what I want is the orange glow from the sun to not emit on the planet but a white light. I tried the fake light idea but I don’t know how you can make it brighter:
Am I using the wrong light?(point light)