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.
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
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A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .