It’s present in the Webb picture but is not a “star”.
Follow the the 3 stars to the bottom left of the spiral in the upper left. You will find the correlating region on the current photo is a cluster of distant objects behind the dust cloud of the lower left spiral galaxy.
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Reply to A group of galaxies called "Stephan's Quintet" was featured in the opening scene of the Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946), where angels were speaking from. Left is from the movie, right is from the James Webb Space Telescope. by Yoprobro13
It’s present in the Webb picture but is not a “star”. Follow the the 3 stars to the bottom left of the spiral in the upper left. You will find the correlating region on the current photo is a cluster of distant objects behind the dust cloud of the lower left spiral galaxy.