Here is a tutorial for planet making. It shows how to make the atmosfere glow. For space clouds use any technique to make clouds or dust and just put it in space. https://www.wastedgeek.com/?p=5 Thanks, i tried but it doesn't work without connecting it to the camera (something that I don't want to do), and the way my scene is set, there is a total dark area behind Earth so that type of shader won't work. I'd need something that glows but also shows transparency from where the camera views. The kind of Earth atmosphere I'd like to make is like this: https://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg There are 3 options I can find for clouds, but the scene requires one that will not crash it. 1. Use of liquids. Good aspect but eats loads of ram. 2. Dynamic particles... can't get those to work without crashing even the simplest scene whenever I assign the particle cloud texture to it. 3. nParticles. Works best for comets, but fails hard when I require them to just sit still. Is there a way to freeze the particles?