Ancient, tightly packed clumps of stars found at the fringe of the Milky Way are a good bet in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (Seti), research suggests.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
Makes sense, older stars = greater chance for alien life living or dead.
Absolutely. The greater the chance of development, although of course that also means the greater the chances that the starts aren't there anymore as well.
But if those stars have been there for so long, what if the alien life that was there has left already? I feel like stars that aren't young but aren't old yet would be a save bet. Why not just look for stars that are similar in age to the ones near Earth?
I have to wonder if alien life is really as rare and far away as we figure, or if our definition of intelligence is so narrow that we'll never recognize alien life through our own perspectives.