Yes, just paint in the perspective view without any planes. If you do a search in the help docs for "star" there's a small "how-to" on animating a starfield.

There are other ways of making starfields and if you search the forum for things like stars, starfield, or space, you'll find some methods (i.e., using/freezing particles to create the initial starfield or creating a shader using the leather material (edited).