Decided to try my hand at this week's challenge.  I'll admit, I'm kind of worried about this particular entry after looking around the WIP thread - it appears that outer space was on the lists of many as a difficult-to-survive environment.  This was actually my third or fourth idea, awkwardly enough - maybe I should have stuck with one of the weirder ones. 

Image size is 150x150, the challenge max.  Color count SHOULD - and I emphasize SHOULD - be 16 precisely.  I double-checked the palette, counted the number of colors I had set out for myself, and loaded the finished file in ASEPRITE and GIMP to make absolutely certain that nothing had gone weird on me.  The only thing that I can think of which may have changed the color count is uploading the file to the internet - which is, of course, completely implausible.  That said: if the counter gives you a weird number, it ain't my fault.

EDIT: I took the image back into GIMP and found, much to my dismay, that ASEPRITE had dropped some opacity in places for no readily apparent reason, thus increasing the color count.  I have decreased it back to 14 as near as I can tell, but this may need confirmation.

EDIT: Confirmed by the counter; color count is now 15, though it still registers a number of the colors as partially transparent for some reason.  I promise you I didn't use any kind of transparency controls when making this; every color was created by hand using the in-program palette controls, and should therefore be perfectly opaque.  I wish I knew what's going on here.

And yes, it is, in fact, a koi jumping out of the sun.  Damn big koi if the curvature of the sun's surface is anything to go by, but then, this is stylized.  Physicists need not apply.