[Romulus]

Too bad it’s faked. There’s no way to capture that many faint stars (and do I see the Andromeda nebula?) while moving at jet speed, without causing star trails, and certainly not without over-exposing the horizon and cloud tops.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

If you do not like it with all the stars and color you should find yourself a dull one that is not.

A photograph is a 2 dimensional representation of 3 dimensional space which Astronomers have taken and adjusted with color to allow them to examine things like stellar spectra which indicate the elements in the stars or dust or gas clouds. When the astronomers are done extracting information they share them with us. Since most of them have been manipulated and enhanced they are all technically "fakes", but that does not mean that they cannot be beautiful.

(The Treachery of Images.)