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NGC 7129

Stellar nursery in the constellation Cepheus

Space · James Webb telescope reveals hidden stars in NGC 7129 stellar nursery

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled numerous stars formerly hidden by clouds of dust in the stellar nursery NGC 7129, located about 3,300 light-years from Earth. An image released on Oct. 6, 2026, shows hot atomic hydrogen gas in golden regions and cooler molecular hydrogen gas in red, shocked by embedded protostars.