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.
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .