Celestial Borealis

Ooo, two paintings in a week? Say it isn't so! though, I'm not even going to call this one a nebula. I had an itch this morning with a new idea on how to create a better planet (I tell ya, reading a million tutorials pays off at some point!) It worked marvelously! Though, I confess, I cheated and used pictures off NASA's website for the cities (I am ashamed). THEN, I decided to go for an aurora borealis in space thingy because I was liking the ambient vibe from my "Rain Nebula" and wanted to continue playing with that.
This took me roughly three hours to do
Photoshop7, my mouse, and two pictures from NASA(I will do better next time; honestly, this is bothering me....pilfering off photographs, oh the humanity!)