question: What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "Jim was looking straight at his neighbor's bright Christmas display but it looked very dim to him. That's because"

answer: as distance from a source of light increases , that source of light will appear dimmer

question: What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "Galileo dismissed what as a mere star?"

answer: Galileo Galilei made improvements to the telescope to make better observations of celestial bodies

question: What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "the sun transfers solar energy from itself to the Earth through"

answer:
the sun transfers solar energy from itself to the Earth through sunlight