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About NGC 7129 - From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7129:

With a surface brightness of 11.5, NGC 7129 is an open cluster star-forming region in a reflection nebula which lies 3,300 light years away. A 2004 survey shows it has over 130 very young stars, each less than 1 million years old. The nebula is rosebud-shaped; the young stars have blown a large, oddly shaped bubble in the molecular cloud that once surrounded them at their birth.

About NGC 7142 - From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7142:

NGC 7142 is an open cluster about 6,200 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, and has an apparent brightness of 9.3. This open cluster is located near the reflection nebula NGC 7129 (both shown in this image), which is a first indication that the cluster may be obscured by an interstellar cloud. Many studies have demonstrated this to be true dating back to the earliest investigations of this cluster. A thorough study of the Cepheus region concluded "that no part of the field may be considered unobscured."

The visibility of several background galaxies in the NW corner of the cluster indicate that the obscuring medium may be lowest here - one of these galaxies can be seen well on just adjacent to the cluster, on its top left tip.

Due to the uncertain amount of interstellar reddening, precise determination of age for this cluster has been especially difficult. Based on NGC 7142's Color-magnitude diagram, it is believed that this cluster is close in age to the old open clusters M 67 and NGC 188 (although age determinations for these two clusters varies wildly in the literature). This makes it one of the oldest open clusters currently known.

Despite its age, NGC 7142 contains a surprisingly high number of blue stars. This runs contrary to the standard model of cluster evolution which predicts that old clusters should be devoid of such stars since bluer stars are more massive and thus evolve and die off faster, which should prevent them from still being present. Such stars are said to be blue stragglers.