The original artist was Adam Ismail, I followed a tutorial on http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk that actually turned out to be a somewhat tough for me and eventually after working with the effects this came out. This doesn't actually look like the final out come of the tutorial but i liked what actually came out. This was originally supposed to be a flame effect tutorial using the spherize and twirl filters. The twirl around the red circle is actually a picture taken from the hubble telescope.
Adam Ismail's Original