Astronomer: Earlier estimates of the distances of certain stars from Earth would mean that these stars are about 1 billion years older than the universe itself, an impossible scenario  My estimates of the distances indicate that these stars are much farther away than previously thought  And the farther away the stars are, the greater their intrinsic brightness must be, given their appearance to us on Earth
So the new estimates of these stars' distances from Earth help resolve the earlier conflict between the ages of these stars and the age of the universe
The brighter a star is, the younger it is.