Read the passage. "It is in fact their great distance which is ""the reason of their diminution,"" for many of them are very many times larger than the star which is the earth.”

–"In Praise of the Sun,”
Leonardo da Vinci

Which is the best paraphrase of the underlined text in the passage?

why the stars are bright
why the stars are smaller
why the stars are so far away
why the stars are larger than the sun