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.
From a platter of finger licking chicken wings to a bowl of Chinese noodle soup, these foodie snaps are enough to make your savoury saliva glands drool .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
