Science News Round-Up [9/2/11]

New Hubble Videos Show Star Jets in Action 14 years’ worth of high-resolution pictures from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been spliced together for the first time to create video footage of Herbig-Haro objects–high-velocity jets shooting from the poles of baby stars. The outflows are relatively short-lived, astronomically-speaking, continuing for about 100,000 years before […]

Video game soundtracks get orchestra treatment

You’ve heard of video games being described as classics. Now it’s time to hear them as classical. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is tonight performing a concert featuring 22 tracks from video games with the full running order being: Advent Rising Halo Bioshock Dead Space Mass Effect Battlefield Call of Duty Splinter Cell Elder Scrolls Final […]