How to make an atmosphere using threejs

Question

I use three.js's SphereGeometry build an earth , and I want add a blue atmosphere to make it look better. How can I do that?

Now the earth is looking like this

I want to render the atmosphere like below (just don't know how to render the light, maybe it called glow):

look at mine [Atmospheric scattering in GLSL](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19659648/2521214) and also [n-body simulation](http://stackoverflow.com/a/28020934/2521214) also this [Bump-map a sphere with a texture map](http://stackoverflow.com/a/32558700/2521214) — Spektre, Sep 22 '15 at 08:50

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '15 at 10:00

Using a custom shader like this:

Or just use this ready made threex atmosphere-glow extension:

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