Missing Link Star: Why This 'Teenage Vampire' White Dwarf Has Scientists So Excited

Inset: Illustration of the white dwarf. Main top image: Gaia22ayj in X-rays and visible light. Main bottom image: Zwicky Transient Facility images of Gaia22ayj. (Image credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories Rodriguez/wift/XRT/NASA PanSTARRS of Hawaii.) Astronomers have identified a “missing link” that…




