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.
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .