Some of these photos look so "fake". Maybe because of how they are lit or the lack of atmospheric distortion, they don't quite looks real (I'm not disputing that they are authentic, they just look a bit weird)
Yeah, it is common for pictures in space to look like simplistic raytraced renderings because the lighting and shadows are so sharp, lacking atmospheric diffusion and scattering.
Its a classic feeling when seeing things there one not normally see. There's a whole conspiracy that the war in Ukraine is fake, because video of combat looks weird compared to movies and video games.
