Webb Captures Stellar Nursery

This stellar nursery is known as NGC 7129, which resides about 3,300 light years from Earth, and is about 5.7 light years wide. This makes the NGC 7129 nebula is wider than the gap from the Sun to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. (~4.3ly)

In this image, the gold area is known as the cavity. The bright and central star in the nebula earlier in its life pushed out large amounts of matter and gas, pushing the hydrogen gas cloud away. In addition, it energizes the cloud and compresses it, which allows new stars to form in its wake. You can even see bow shocks reminiscent of Earth's magentic field and solar plasma hitting it. You can see the gas being ejected from the central star is hitting the magnetosphere of one of the stars and is being bended and redirected in a way known as a bow shock.