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Jupiter and Saturn are about to appear closer in the sky than they have for 800 years, aligning as a 'double planet'

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  Aylin Woodward Mon, November 23, 2020, 3:18 PM PST · 4 min read A man with a telescope watches the night sky over the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Los Angeles on July 19.  David McNew/Getty Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on December 21. It'll be the closest they've appeared in 800 years. The two planets move into alignment,  or conjunction , every 20 years. But this year they will be so close that they'll look like a "double planet." The last time Saturn and Jupiter were both this close and visible was in 1226. Here are the best ways to see this conjunction. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Jupiter and Saturn are about to line up perfectly in the night sky, getting so close on December 21 that they'll seem to touch. The last time they looked this close from Earth's vantage point was nearly 800 years ago, on March 4, 1226. An astronomical event in which celestial bodies align is called a conjunction. S...

Pakistan's lonely elephant serenaded one last time at farewell party

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Officials and well-wishers gathered at Islamabad Zoo on Monday for a farewell party for Pakistan's lonely elephant Kaavan before he sets off for a new life in Cambodia this week. After years of campaigning by animal rights advocates and pop star Cher to rescue him from grim conditions with no companion, Kaavan was finally set to be airlifted to an elephant sanctuary on Sunday. To mark the occasion, officials, including lawmakers and Pakistan's climate change minister, gathered among balloons and signs saying "Farewell Kaavan, we will miss you". Children posed for photos and musicians performed in front of the enclosure, with Kaavan at one point serenaded while he snacked on some grass. Kaavan is known to be a fan of music and Amir Khalil, a vet from animal rescue organisation Four Paws, bonded with the elephant, who has been aggressive to humans in the past, by singing him Frank Sinatra songs. Four Paws spokeswoman Marion Lombard said that thou...

Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew

  By Peter Szekely (Reuters) - They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on. As a Utah helicopter crew buzzed over the southeastern part of the state looking for bighorn sheep last week, sitting beneath them in the middle of the desert was a bright shiny monolith, the stuff of sci-fi sagas. Pilot Bret Hutchings of the state Department of Public Safety recalled someone on board spotting the gleaming metal object firmly implanted in a small clearing set against the redness of the rocks and sand below. “He’s like, whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around,” Hutchings told KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. “There’s this thing, there’s this thing back there. We’ve got to go look at it.” After Hutchings set their helicopter down in the remote area, which remains undisclosed to discourage a rush of gawkers, they got a closer look, but found "no obvious indication" of how it got there, the public safety department said. Images released by the depar...

"Cyberpunk 2077" video shows its ray tracing capabilities

 Cyberpunk 2077 is finally coming in three weeks. CD Projekt Red and NVIDIA have provided more information for the highly anticipated RPG ray tracing.    In a new developer video, they showed footage of the game activated by DXR ray tracing and NVIDIA's DLSS technology. Nvidia said that with the support of ray tracing, this game is "more immersive and detailed." The company said that when it is turned on, “brilliant ray-traced reflections will be projected on every possible surface; the natural softening and sharpening of shadows will be greatly improved; shops, streets and buildings are all real diffuse lighting.”    In September, CDPR announced the minimum and recommended PC requirements. Although playing Cyberpunk 2077 hardly requires any high-end system, if you want to use its ray tracing function, this game requires a fairly strong machine.   The publisher recommends using NVIDIA's RTX cpu, but other dxr-compatible GPUs can also work. You need at least one RTX 20...

Nintendo mobile game launches AR mode

 Nintendo’s free mobile game "Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp" (Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp) has a new augmented reality feature that allows players to interact with their favorite characters in the real world. The company announced the "Augmented Reality Camera" and "Augmented Reality Cabin" modes. These two modes allow players to place your animal neighbors in your surroundings via mobile phones. You can go out and play with them, or you can play They take pictures together.    For example, the camera allows the player to select a character, and then use the viewfinder to place it on the table, the sidewalk, or wherever you want, and the player can take pictures with them. At the same time, the cabin allows the player to put a door on the thing in front of him, open it, and enter a room. Up to 8 different characters can be invited to hang out in this space.    In addition to the new model, other areas of Pocket Camp will provide users with customized furni...

Tesla will enter the S&P 500 index next month

 Next month, Tesla ( hermes outlet ) will enter the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500). Goldman Sachs said that this event may trigger a $8 billion rise in Tesla's stock price.   The news of entering the Standard & Poor's 500 index has pushed Tesla's share price up 22%, which is more than 200% of the index's best performing companies CARR and ETSY.    In fact, if Tesla appears in the S&P 500 index now, it will be the index’s best performing stock so far this year.    But according to reports, in about 31 days, $11 trillion mutual funds and other investments tracking the S&P index are expected to buy Tesla stock, and some Wall Street insiders are nervous about what might happen.    "They almost turned the S&P 500 index into a momentum index," Benjamin Lau of Apriem Advisors told Bloomberg. The company manages assets worth US$850 million.    "My biggest worry is how it will affect our index funds and passive holdings."

Samsung builds semiconductor factory in the United States

 According to Korean media, Samsung will build a new semiconductor factory using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology in Austin, Texas, with a total investment of approximately US$10 billion. Samsung and related industry sources recently revealed that Samsung Electronics will build a wafer fab in Austin, Texas, and use EUV lithography machines to produce non-memory semiconductors and system LSI products. The investment scale is estimated at US$10 billion and the monthly production capacity is about 70,000. sheet.    Korean semiconductor occupies an important position in the global semiconductor industry chain. In the first half of 2020 ( 2021 hermes bags ) global top ten semiconductor sales ranking announced by IC Insights, South Korean manufacturers accounted for two places, namely Samsung ranked second and SK Hynix ranked fourth. At present, Samsung has launched a "Semiconductor 2030 Plan", hoping to invest 133 trillion won, or about 116 billion U.S. dollars, to become the ...