Space, Stars and Hoth

After doing some research I stumbled across this tutorial for stars- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7zYkZlbbI

Again using our old friend noise, creating a noise map in the environment tab then tweaking the values and colours leaves us with this-

which I felt was a very impressive looking space effect. It adds this noise effect to a rendered scenes environment, it isnt constantly present so this is a good use of memory.
As for Hoth, I would like to thank Duael Designs LLc & Robert Stein for the texture they posted on the blog http://freebitmaps.blogspot.com/2010/12/srgb-planet-hoth.html.
Although not quite the right colour, I felt this was a very attractive looking planet texture that I then colourised in GIMP to give it a snowy feel. It was then applied via the material editor.