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.
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
