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.
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .