I assume you're looking to do something like this (photo)?
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/assets/wallpaper/sun.jpg
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990923.html
Think solar corona. Think diffuse transparent media.
Cheers.
DLM



"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> The first installment in a new project I'm working on.  This is actually a
> scale model I did for concept purposes, the scale is way too small for the
> purposes of my concept tho. (1 unit = 100000 miles)
>
> I'll be trying to scale it up a little at a time.
>
> One problem though, is that I used a sphere with a pair of scattering 
> medias
> to create the general luminosity pattern, then overlaid a universal media
> to give it color.  The effect, while quite striking, renders the starfield
> in the background completely invisible. (And yes, I do realize that at 
> that
> proximity to the sun, you probably wouldn't be able to see the stars
> anyway, but It may interfere with other media effects in the scene later.)
>
> I'll post the source in P.B.S.F. if anybody want's to play around with it.
> I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments.
>
> A.D.B.
>
> ------
> If this little world tonight / suddenly should fall through space
> in a hissing, headlong flight / shrivelling from off its face
> as it falls into the sun, / in an instant every trace
> of the little crawling things / ants, philosophers, and lice,
> cattle, roaches, and kings, / beggars, millionares, and mice,
> men and maggots all as one / as it falls into the sun...
> Who can say but at the same instant / from some planet far
> a child may watch us and exclaim / "See the pretty shooting star!"
>
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