Sorry, Neighboring Omega Centauri is Probably Uninhabitable

Well, it looks like we’re going to have to look farther than we thought for intergalactic extraterrestrial life.Astronomers have long held out hope that Omega Centauri, a massive globular cluster just 16,000 light years away, harbors habitable exoplanets. Researchers estimate that 10 million densely packed stars lie within the cluster’s borders, so statistically speaking, it must house some habitable planets, right? Wrong. In fact, Omega Centauri’s stellar density is the reason