Primeval Planet

[Opet]

If space interests you, check out this story on a Primeval Planet they started studying a decade ago.

"Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planet, a primeval world 12.7 billion years old..." HERE

 

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Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planet, a primeval world 12.7 billion years old that will force them to reconsider how and when planets form. The discovery raises the prospect that life may have begun far sooner than most scientists ever imagined.

Heh, sounds funny out of context. They mean, however, that it was possible for an earth-like planet to contain life in the system of this oldest planet?

"The fact that this system managed to form a gas-giant planet 12.7 billion years ago certainly boggles the minds of those of us who are used to having a hard time going back just 4.5 billion years in time," said Alan Boss, a leading planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

And that just sounds funny on general terms.