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 .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
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The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
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FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
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Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .