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.
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
