An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert. Surrounded by vast desert and distant snow topped mountains, the enormous satellite dishes, dome-shaped buildings and telescopes are run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , an intergovernmental body dedicated to observing space. Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza was granted access to several observatory sites.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
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Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
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A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
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