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We've had an amazing time skywatching this year, with planetary alignments and plenty of meteor showers.And now the Universe is delivering again, with the Leonid meteor shower predicted to peak early on 18 November.The shower is viewable from most places in the world, and this year the viewing conditions will be especially good as there will be very little moonlight washing out the sky.Viewers can expect to see around 10-15 meteors per hour in the hours after midnight, early Saturday morning.So what is the Leonid meteor…

HOUSTON—The boom in oil production that over the last decade made the U.S. the world’s largest producer is waning, suggesting the era of shale growth is nearing its peak.Frackers are hitting fewer big gushers in the Permian Basin, America’s busiest oil patch, the latest sign they have drained their catalog of good wells. Shale companies’ biggest and best wells are producing less oil, according to data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported last year companies would exhaust their best U.S. inventory in a…

Sunspots are planet-sized regions on the sun’s surface that have increased magnetic shields and often appear dark or black on the surface of our star. These spots are often the originating point of coronal mass ejections or solar flares, which unleash solar energy into space. Now, an amateur astrophotographer has captured the peak of one of these spots in a breathtaking sunspot time-lapse. The time-lapse was captured by Şenol Şanlı between December 2 and December 27, 2022. The video follows an evolving cluster…

Xiaomi has shown the Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept smartphone with an interchangeable lens similar to a DSLR camera. The Chinese smartphone brand has released a video teasing the complete design and optical details of the smartphone co-developed by Leica. The new Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept allows users to attach a camera lens to the smartphone camera. Xiaomi claims that users can attach Leica's professional M-series camera lenses to the smartphone's camera. The Xiaomi 12S Ultra concept is equipped with two 1-inch sensors,…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday said that the spiking U.S. dollar could peak soon."The strong dollar has become an albatross around the neck of an already beaten-down market, but now the charts, at last, as interpreted by Carley Garner, suggest the dollar could be peaking," he said.The value of the U.S. dollar has surged in recent months, driven by the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate raises and the hot U.S. economy. That's been a headwind to companies that conduct business largely overseas and are therefore subject…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday said that inflation is peaking, which is good news for stocks that have been trampled in recent months."The stock market … totally saw peak inflation coming. I think you had to be deliberately obtuse to miss this because commodity prices have been collapsing a while ago, but now it's undeniable," the "Mad Money" host said.Stocks jumped on Wednesday after the consumer price index revealed that inflation's upward climb decelerated in July from the year earlier. All the major indices were up,…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday gave investors his blessing to consider purchasing beaten-down tech stocks after Target's latest quarter indicated good news for the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation."The real greenlight here is on the beaten-down tech. … They might deserve a bit of a resurgence if they have profits and a total romp if they have buybacks and dividends," he said."This is not a subtle market. I don't want you to overthink it because sometimes it can be easy," he added.Cramer's comments come after Target…