The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma (that’s the science according to They Might Be Giants) but sometimes it looks like a giant disco ball.

In honor of its fifth anniversary, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory this week released a time-lapse video showing one frame of the sun every 8 from June 2010 to Feb. 8, 2015.



The press release explains: “The different colors represent the various wavelengths (sometimes blended, sometimes alone) in which SDO observes the sun.”



The music? “Power and Progress” by Christian Telford.