Actually this Vue challenge is a perfect opportunity to use the masking feature of Vue discussed earlier. That MAX image has an imported mesh with a pre-rendered planetary backdrop. This is the best way to create that type of look (without going crazy)... Creating a planetary foreground and a distant yet close-up near-by planet (is 10,000 miles close-up? In space it is)will be difficult otherwise to look really good because you are dealing both with the clear vacuum of space and a planetary atmosphere effect...