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Aquellas estrellas brillan mucho.

Aquellas estrellas brillan mucho.
Those stars shine a lot.
From Lesson 68:Far demonstratives (aquel, aquella)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Aquellas estrellas brillan mucho.

Why use aquellas instead of esas if they both mean "those"?
While esas means "those" (things near the person you are talking to, or just a little far), aquellas is used for things that are far away from both you and the listener. Since stars are extremely far away from us, aquellas is the most natural choice here!
Why does this sentence use aquellas instead of aquellos?
Demonstrative adjectives (pointing words like this, that, and those) must always match the noun they describe. Because estrellas (stars) is a feminine and plural noun, the pointing word must also be feminine and plural: aquellas.
Shouldn't mucho be muchas to match the feminine, plural estrellas?
If we were saying "many stars," yes, it would be muchas estrellas. However, in this sentence, mucho means "a lot" and describes the verb brillan (how much they shine), not the stars themselves. When mucho describes an action instead of a noun, it acts as an adverb and never changes its ending.
How do we get the verb form brillan?
It comes from the regular verb brillar (to shine). Since the subject of the sentence is aquellas estrellas (which counts as "they" or ellas), we drop the -ar and add the "they" ending to get brillan.

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