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.
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
PEACE and love filled the 1980’s Glastonbury fields as relaxed festival goers kicked back and soaked up the atmosphere .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
A SHOCKING cartoon of a black man carrying bags saying‘’zippadydoohdah zip-up immigrant bags’ has appeared in a shop window and is being investigated by police .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .