with an age of just 9 billion years

Hunh, just a youngster (end sarcasm).

I remember from my telescoping days that globular clusters were the best objects in scopes:

• Stars are okay but basically just points of light.
• Galaxies are nice in photos, in a scope they are just dim fuzzy oblong blobs.
• The planets are cool but kind of small.
• Globular clusters however do not disappoint. Large, bright and you can almost imagine their spherical shape in 3-D.