I tried both reducing the particles, and increasing the bounding box size (it was really small), and this helped immensely! Not sure exactly which one (if not both) did the trick, but it looks beautiful now! Here is the new result:
I tried both reducing the particles, and increasing the bounding box size (it was really small), and this helped immensely! Not sure exactly which one (if not both) did the trick, but it looks beautiful now! Here is the new result: