NASA today released an awesome time lapse video of our Sun over a period of five years from 2010 to 2015.

NASA made public the incredible and strangely beautiful video to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. The video captured one frame every eight hours from June 2010 to Feb. 8, 2015, said NASA.

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SDO, a geosynchronous satellite, was launched on Feb. 11, 2010 and keeps track of the Sun from its orbit some 36,000 kilometers above the Earth.

Its mission is to understand the influence of the Sun on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.

SDO is is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. The goal of LWS is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to effectively address aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system directly affecting life and society.

The spacecraft developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has an original mission life of five years. That life span might be extended.