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.
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
