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.
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A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
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SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
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A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .