How to take a picture of the stars like this?

I know he used a nikon d700 but how did he do it? I have a nikon d5000 is it possible if so what were the settings please help i'm trying to learn: D

That's called photoshop.

I have a D5000 too.

1.use a tripod
2. Set your camera to manual
3. Set the apeture to Bulb
4. Set f stop to f8
5. Use a remote to trigger the camera without touching it or if you don't have a remote be very gentle.
6. Give your camera 20-30 seconds to capture the image.
7. Close the shutter.

The camera was on a tripod, Pointed just off of the north star.set to bulb triggered from a remote or some kind of trigger device. The trees were probably "light painted" with a flash strobe. The exposure time was more like in excess of 5 minutes or so.

Sure, you could give it a shot.

What you need to do is have your shutter open for a while.

You also Can't hand hold this because even the steadiest hand shakes.

First thing to do is put your camera on a tripod pointing at the sky (duh lol. )
Next, you are going to want to put the setting on manuel and dial in a long shutter speed. You are going to want it open for a few seconds. I'm not sure what you are going to want to put the Aperture on. I think you should go by trial and error with that and experiment what you like best. I feel a smaller aperture would work best (around f/11)

If you don't have a remote trigger, set your camera on self-timer. If you try to press the shutter button to take the picture regularly, you will shake the camera too much and you will get a blurry picture. Hence the self-timer. The camera should be still enough to take the picture after about 10 seconds.

The theory behind this picture is that since we're on a planet that moves, even though we look like we're still to each other, we actually are all moving. Since we're all moving at the same speed compared to each other if we stand still, no one can tell that we're moving. But the stars are moving at a different speed than we're. So if you point your camera up at the sky, have the shutter open a bit, it will catch the trails of the star.

Hope that helped!

A picture like that requires minutes of exposure, NOT seconds.
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You could stack the images using a number of free stacking programs and then take a number of shorter exposures WITHOUT MOVING THE CAMERA…
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You would need a good steady tripod. A very clear DARK night sky away from city lights. A remote way to fire your camera. A built in intervalometer would help or one on a wire that Nikon sells. Because you would be making short timed exposures, you could try a ISO of 400 and as wide open as your lens can go, which for most lenses today this id around f/3.5. Having your camera set to M so you can focus on the stars yourself and the camera won't try to do something by it's self.
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Shoot a number of 30 second exposures and do NOT move the camera. Stack the images with any one of the free image stacking programs - https://www.google.com/...gws_rd=ssl - and learn…
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Have fun.
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This kind of picture is called a "startrail" (more professionally, time-lapse) to capture this you need to set up your camera on a tripod and set it to a long exposure (5-10 minutes) however, your location needs to be very dark or else your picture will turn out too bright. Also, this will work substantially better if you have a lens with a longer focal length.
Also, if you open the picture and look on the righthand side of it it will say where it was shot etc., click on "Nikon D7000" and it will give you the EXIF data which has all the information on how it was shot.