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.
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
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 .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .