The Oldest Planet in the Milky Way? --"Orbits a White Dwarf Three Times as Old as Our Solar System"

"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," observed Rosanne DiStefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in January, 2016. Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. The...