Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don’t know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.
Nice find, and I love that people are finally pushing TESS data with new pipelines like SHERLOCK, but let’s not pretend this is a tidy three-planet slam dunk. The team confirms two transiting Earth-sized planets, the third is still a candidate. Headlines shouting “three Earth-sized” are doing a disservice to the work and to readers who assume confirmed means nailed down.
This is interesting for dynamics though, a binary with planets transiting both stars is rare and tells us something about formation and stability in tight binaries. Still, these are ultra-short period worlds around red dwarfs (2–3.5 day orbits), probably tidally locked, and we have zero masses yet. TESS pixels are big, so ground-based follow-up and precision near-IR RVs or high-res imaging are essential before we start talking about any Earth-like implications.
So yeah, cool system and worth chasing, but chill on the clickbait. Follow-up observations will be the real test, not reprocessed light curves alone.
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