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 grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .