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.
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
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A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
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LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .