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.
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .