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.
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .