It’s time to represent the starry sky. It’s necessary in this case to create a new layer (Create new layer) and choose the Paint Bucket Tool (G) of black color. Place this layer upper than the previous layers and upper than the layer of the big planet (on the layers’ panel).

Apply for the last layer Filter>Noise>Add noise

 

Apply the layer’s parameters: Blending mode-Linear light
Make also a mouse’s click on the lowest part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask option. After that it’s necessary to select the Brush Tool (B) with blurred edges, diameter – 300 and black color to erase the unnecessary part of our picture.

Try to picture now a meteorite. Create a new layer and choose a standard brush on it – Brush Tool (B) of white color and diameter – 7 to represent a patch and than apply the Eraser Tool (E), Opacity of 30% to clean out a little the meteorite’s tail.

Now we have to represent the meteorite’s reflection. In this case we’ll make a copy of the last made layer and select the Free Transform option to turn over the copy and to place the copy exactly it is shown below. Fill 50% on the copied layers.

Create another new layer (Create new layer) and select on it the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), mark out the necessary area and paint it in this color – #0000FF, choosing for this operation the Paint Bucket Tool (G)

Apply the next layer’s parameters: Fill 29%
Blending mode- Color Burn

Using the same instrument – Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), try to mark out the appropriate area and select one more time the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to paint the marked place with #898989

Apply for this layer the next selection – Filter>Noise>Add noise

One more filter’s option should be applied on the layer: Filter>Blur>Motion blur

The parameters of the same layer: Fill 50%
Blending mode-Soft Light

The picture is finished!

Inspired  from Nightly Journey by gucken and taenaron
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1. New file, goto the scroll menu and select flash, or make it 550×400

2. Press “D” to go back to default colors, fill layer with white (ctrl+Backspace)

3. Time to add a moon, goto Filter, Render, Lighting effects, and use something around these settings.

4. You need to get darker colors for you clouds, I used #898988 and #4b4b4b

5. Make a new layer, then goto Filters, Render, Clouds. (Ctrl+F if you dont like the outcome)

6.Now just goto the Hue/Saturation.
Use something around these settings:
Hue:216
Saturation:19
Lightness:+20

7. Now set the Blending Mode to Overlay

Now it should look something like this:

8.Now make a new layer, set your colors back to defalut (press “D”), and fill the layer with black, Alt+Backspace.

9. Stars now, goto Filters, Noise, Add Noise. Check Gaussian, and Monochromatic and use about 14-16.

10. Set the blending mode on the Noise layer to Soft Light and then your done.

Myn turned out:

And for added effect add another layer with a “Spotlight” Light effect, and play around with the blending mode and order of layers for a shooting star.
and with the shooting star: