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Click on images below to enlarge. If your browser automatically reduces the size of the image to fit the screen, you may need to click on the resulting image to enlarge so you can make out the details. You can use the name of each object to keep them straight, or give them letters. A few of the objects are available in multiple versions, sometimes due to photographing in different wavelengths.
Note: Some of the brightest stars in these images have rays or lines pointing out from them (e.g. M16, M42), or even circles surrounding the stars (M45). This is not how stars really appear, but is a result of how the pictures were taken similar to "lens flare" in traditional photograph. "Mistakes" like these that are unrelated to what's really out there are called artifacts, and can be contrasted with "real" rays like in HD 44179 (Red Rectangle). The staircase-like black shape in some of the images is also an artifact, one that is particular to one digital camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Images are from HubbleSite.org
