YOU SAID:
icarus is flying to close to the sun
INTO JAPANESE
イカロスは太陽の近くまで飛んでいます
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Icarus is flying near the sun
INTO JAPANESE
イカロスは太陽の近くを飛んでいます
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Icarus is flying near the sun
That didn't even make that much sense in English.