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[W]atch an unusually long filament explode out from the Sun. The filament had been seen hovering over the Sun’s surfacefor over a week before it erupted earlier this month. The image sequence was taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in a color of ultraviolet light specifically emitted by helium. The explosion created Coronal Mass Ejections which dispersed high energy plasma into the Solar System. This plasma cloud, though, missed the Earth and so did not cause auroras. The above eruption and an unusually expansive eruption that occurred in August are showing how widely separated areas of the Sun can sometimes act in unison. Explosions like this will likely become more common over the next few years as our Sun moves toward Solar Maximum activity.

Amazing when you think that that is actually a video of The Sun. An orb 100 times the diameter of our own planet. Or put another way an orb that could hold 1,000,000 Earths. That’s one big ‘filament’.

Amazing video.

The clamshell design allows the iPad to be used in a laptop-style configuration, with the screen propped up and a flat keyboard to type on. Such a product would also allow the screen to be protected when stored.

Even with its lack of standard keyboard, the iPad has been viewed as a threat to the low-cost, low-power netbook market.

I want one. The keyboard reminds me of a Cambridge Z88 a bit.

Accessories like this for the iPad mean that netbooks are dead.