i can't remember everything but here it goes.

1) make your sphere any color, i used black, and set fill to 0.

2)go to blending options, select gradient overlay and doubleclick this:

and do your gradient like so

1. click in this general area and there will be a tab for you to click for opacity, set it to 0.
2. move this black tab over to right a bit. click ok

set your angle to 45 degrees

3)create a new blank layer below the sphere layer, select the sphere layer and hit ctrl+e to merge down. now duplicate this layer.

4) use the top most layer and use the magic wand tool to select the empty space around the sphere, no hit ctrl+i. right click the rectangular marquee tool and select the sphere marquee tool and select this button right below the menu bar.

no patch it up little by little so it will look as perfect as possible

5) go to filter/distort/twirl... selet either +999 or -999 depending on the direction you wan the swirl, i forget which one i selected. now hit ctrl+e and merge the twirl layer with the sphere layer.

6) hit ctrl+u and select the "colorize" check box and use hue = 221, saturation = 63, and lightness = +18.

and this should be your final result


hope this came even close to the result you wanted, if not try going back through ina similar manner and just do minor adjustment, especially on the hue.