My god, it's full of stars

"Could we expect to find Earth-type planets (big things with rocky/metallic compositions) around globular cluster stars?

In very low-metallicity clusters, probably not; we’d end up with Moon-sized planets at best, after boiling away all the gas; and these little things would not hold on to their atmospheres long enough for life to develop. But in high-metallicity clusters such as many of the ones in the Galactic bulge, big terrestrial planets should be able to form. However, then we need to ask where in the cluster we should look! The central parsec or so, with its frequent star-star interactions, would be a very dangerous environment for planets, which would be removed by tidal encounters. So we’ll have to stay a few parsecs out form the cluster centre, and hope that our star doesn’t have a plunging orbit that would take it through the core every few million years.

Then what would the night sky look like from our hypothetical planet? The core of the cluster would look like a huge nest of multicolored jewels, several degrees across on the sky and almost as bright in total as the full Moon. Inside the core, the main-sequence turnoff stars would be easily visible to the eye as 4th to 5th magnitude – thousands of them sitting on top of the diffuse light of the still fainter stars. But the real spectable would belong to the hundreds of horizontal-branch stars, each as bright as Spica or Altair; and best of all the additional hundreds of yellow and red giants, each shining as brightly as Venus of Jupiter. We should even be able to see the core in the daytime! Scattered more thinly across the sky – but still adding up to thousands of stars visible to the eye – would be the rest of the cluster. And, let’s not forget the Galactic bulge! We are closer to it now, and it is less obscured by dust clouds in the disk, so it would be hanging (somewhere!) in the night sky, again about as bright as the full Moon but much more diffuse. The rest of the Milky Way would stretch across the sky brighter than we see it from Earth.

All in all, a dramatic place to live! The astronomers there must be a happy crowd. And of course, it may be even more fun for us to speculate about how this view of the sky would affect the mythology, religion, and cultural history of any civilisation there.

Isaac Asimov gave a vivid – an mostly correct – answer to this question about half a century ago in one of his fiction pieces called "Nightfall", probably the most famous science-fiction short story ever written."

http://www.iac.es/gabinete/iacnoticias/winter98/xplaneta.htm