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.
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
