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.
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .