See Spacecraft Views: Sun Blasts Massive X4.5-Class Solar Flare

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X4.5-class solar flare. See views in multiple wavelengths here.

Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: A Rising Sun by Alan Ellis / courtesy of Epidemic Sound