Amateur astronomy

An incredible image of a solar eclipse has won this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Selected from more than 4,500 entries, the shot was awarded alongside other highlights, including a technically masterful mosaic of our Milky Way.

NASA has released a collection of 50 stunning Hubble images to celebrate the veteran telescope’s 30th anniversary, which took place earlier this year. The images show 30 cosmic objects, visible to amateur astronomers across the globe.

The SETI Institute, in partnership with French startup Unistellar, wants to up the game for amateur astronomers by marketing a computerized 4.5-in (11.4 cm) reflecting telescope called the "eVscope" that acts as a crowd-sourcing instrument.

Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) is a nonprofit organization aimed at knocking down national and cultural boundaries. It is now selling a neat little grab-n-go telescope called OneSky. Click through to see my (quite favorable) review.

Jupiter and the Moon will pair up on January 21, 2013 for stargazers.