[legosexmagic]

you are suspicious because the government agency tasked with photographing space is publishing photographs of space?

[NHQ]

The pictures are the end of the road for billions in R&D, to say nothing of the academic costs studying unverifiable cosmology. Tasked with?? Is that all it's for, pictures that add zero new information? NASA might as well be the Vatican making smoke signals behind closed doors, and then revealing new doctrine as a result.

[legosexmagic]

congress is funding nasa because voters generally like it when nasa gets funding.