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No, it's relative to a more sensible object than the sun, of Sagittarius A* or whatever you were imagining. Probably something like the closest planet/moon to you is what it's actually relative to.
So does it just stay at the same point relative to the gravitational center of Earth? What about the day/night cycle; does the Earth keep rotating under it? And how big a mass is needed to lock it in place? It'd be pretty sweet for long plane trips if it traveled with the plane.
It stays relative to a reasonable thing, how humans would expect it to. If you were on a plane, it would stay relative to that, if you were on the ground of on the moon, similarly.
The position is the same as if you handt teleported in the first place.