I originally came up with the idea of the asteroids crashing into the planet, but I tried some stuff, and it just wasn't coming together rael well. So unfortunately I had to settle with the asteroids coming close to hitting the planet and leave the rest up to the imagination. I downloaded some new textures last night and this morning, so I hope the new hi-res textures give more eye candy than the textures I was been using before.
I had another go with the nebulae again, I hope it looks better than before. I'm always trying to get better (as is everybody else), so let me know what you think of them. This is my first time using clouds on planet in one of my pieces, I think it turned out pretty well. But anyways, hope you all like it.