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.
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
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A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
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PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
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A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .