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.
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .