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.
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
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 .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .