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.
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
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FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .