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The apparent diameter of the sun decreases as the distance between the observer and the sun...

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Increases; because the light is fanning out so you are getting less of the original image produced by the light. If it was either of the others the night sky would look like a blanket of white, not speckled darkness.

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I wondered why the ball kept getting bigger and bigger, then it hit me . . .

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