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Okay so you've definitely pulled out more of what was there!
How do we know you're clipping? Well, we don't, but we're guessing. You sky background (between the stars) looks black. It should never be perfectly black. Also check the brightest parts of the nebula or some stars that aren't the very brightest, they should never have RGB values of 255 - which indicates the maximum brightness of an 8-bit pixel colour value.
You can also see a haziness around all the stars - which appear flat, they don't fade off to towards the edges much. This indicates that you've used some form of median filter or smoothing to clean up the noise in the image. Real images have noise. Real views with your eye have noise. Anything that has noise is artistic but it ain't real. Some people love it, other's don't. It's up to you whether you use present your images in this way or not - I'm just giving you my feedback.
Hope that's helpful,
Cam
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