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.
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
