Spike,
Well that certainly doesn't take away from their beauty. I've been a bit overtaxed lately trying to do music, 3D art, and Contest Managing,Judging, as well as Moderating simultainously or you'd have seen a couple of renders of these works of art in software 3D, hopefully as glowingly vibrant as your vids. Am working on image maps at the mo' as my original thought of trying to do it with procedural textures isn't accurate enough from what I've already tried.
Like the planet...keep on turning...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again