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.
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .