Whale's Chant

Once again, I've been working on my nebula painting. I'm very happy with the way this turned out and that I finally managed to create a nebula/light thing with character.
When I started with this I only had the one big planet and tried to create a nebula to match, but i didn't really work out. Once done it still looked like only half finished, so i started from scratch and tried to use a different technique. The result is what you see.

I don't know how many layers this picture contains of, but my computer really was struggleing while I was working on this. Adding it all up i guess that there must have been 250-300 original layers. The photoshop file is 170mb (with a lot of layers merged down).
The image you see is 75% size of the original. 4 Days of work on and off.

Comments and 's are very much appreciated