Against a Dark Background

Some development of my planetary raytracer. The new "surface feature" system allows me to add things to the planet's surface, such as in this case Red Spot-like storms to the Jupiter-like planet. In the background is the newly organized Galaxy: each star is actually a place that can be visited, with its own unique solar system, and when the viewpoint is switched to that solar system the rest of the stars and gas clouds in the galaxy will be rendered accurately as if from that star's location.