Most efficient way of rendering stars?

What is the most efficient way of rendering stars, taking in quality and speed.

I wish to render many, many stars. A similar amount of detail to the game 'sins of a solar empire'.

Any help appreciated!

P.S: I did use the search function, couldn't find much.

A skycube with lots of stars?

Edit: or maybe using particles, but it wouldn't be as efficient as the skycube afaik.

i used for my space games, particles, or draw_3d points, based on a vector array , distribution.

and using vec_to_screen functions.
particles /points works best..
Skycube is OLd fashion... and blur etc etc.. and they dont blink, etc etc..

SHOT - DETAIL

Gstudio Unispace Project forum link

Do you have some example code using particles/point3ds?

i have my code.. og that screen shot you see, that uses nice stars, but im upgrading, this, to a Universe sandbox program, so you can tweak starts, number, etc..