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.
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .