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.
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .