On: Nasa faked a shuttle image.

[ojbyrne]

It's a fairly common photographic technique to splice together multiple different exposures of the same shot. Yes, technically faked, but common.

[mattmcknight → ojbyrne]

Yeah, it's a composite. There's a follow up[1]. (btw, the article is a send up of conspiracy theories.)

[1]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/29/ok...

[jcl → mattmcknight]

The sad thing is: I was fairly sure the cockpit was a bad rendering, but it turned out to be a photograph.

[KirinDave → jcl]

Poorly done HDR often looks that way. Search for HDR on flickr and leap down a few pages, you'll see some ugly, ugly stuff.