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.
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STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
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A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
