I wonder

There are a million pictures on the net of galaxies, nebulae, and various other celestial bodies. I have no reason to think any are fake. However!! There are scores of pictures of the Milky Way (where we are) on the Web too. Since we have never left the the Milky Way to turn back and take a pic, it makes me think that every pic out there is just an imagining of what it probably looks like, been passed around significantly, and has been certified as "acceptable" by the astrophysics community.