What will things look like out there?

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So I am incredibly pumped about the film Interstellar. Renowned astrophysicist and black hole expert Kip Thorne worked closely with Nolan's VFX team to produce highly realistic and stunning visuals. According to Thorne he granted Nolan some artistic license but other than inside the wormhole and event horizon Nolan really didn't take any.

But it makes me think about artistic license in space depictions in general. Here are some common sins.

• Shadows show evidence of specular diffusion and backscatter when there shouldn't be any.
  
• Planets and moons orbit way to close taking up more than half of the sky.
  
• Blue giants look exactly like smaller stars shot through a blue filter, but in reality they don't have surface convection cells.
  
• Nebulas have a color pallet consistent with false color images of nebulas.
  
• Galaxies have visible spin (I'm looking at you Episode V).
  
• High contrast and low contrast things are visible in the same shot (like the sun and stars).
  

The list goes on.