I am guessing that you agree that much of this is pure speculation without any direct or indirect Biblical back-up.
The purpose of the sun and moon were to give light on the earth and to be timing devices (day and night, seasons, years, etc). None of these are needed in the new heaven and new earth. I do not think that it is stretching Scripture to say that they will not exist.
There are many objects in God's creation that have no explainable purpose. It is a leap to say that God created the universe in anticipation of populating multiple "earths". Why then destroy them all, only to recreate them? They have not been polluted with sinful mankind.
The sum of it is this: We are not told in the Scriptures enough clear information to do anything more than use some imaginative guessing. As long as it is understood as that (sort of like discussing how many angels can fit on the head of a pin), and nobody starts acting like they have some additional revelation or illumination, then we can all look back in that eternal day and laugh at how blind we all were.
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