here's something i made quickly for no apparent reason:
and here, going with the flow, is my first planet-scape
i hope you like them... i'm still new to GIMP but i believe i am learning fairly quickly
EDIT: I put in stars now, i just used the smallest brush and made a few dots, but is there any way to make them look more real? i've seen some people pics on here with more real looking stars, so i'd like to figure out how to do that myself
EDIT2: made another space scape, thank you FingerFood for the tip with noise, i didn't even know noise could do stuff like that! and here is my spacescape, i have no idea why I put that supernova on the edge of the planet, but I'll just go with it's a nuke and the planet is doomed
sorry for bad gif quality