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.
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .