Well, the astro 'community' has had a few days to digest this and there is criticism aplenty.
The discovery team has 2 data points, and there's a strong consensus you just don't announce anything till you have at the very least 3. 2 data points can be random noise with no mutual correlation, if you have 3 or more, the odds start looking better you've bagged a yon beastie.
Also, there are some sensitive (in other wavelengths) observations from Hubble which plausibly should show the object, but don't.
My take:
really looking spurious, but I would encourage more observations
The discovery team has 2 data points, and there's a strong consensus you just don't announce anything till you have at the very least 3. 2 data points can be random noise with no mutual correlation, if you have 3 or more, the odds start looking better you've bagged a yon beastie.
Also, there are some sensitive (in other wavelengths) observations from Hubble which plausibly should show the object, but don't.
My take:
really looking spurious, but I would encourage more observations
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