SPECTACULAR SCENERY AT CHILEAN OBSERVATORIES

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.

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THE ENCHANTING FOREST OF FIREFLIES

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

THE F-ANT-ASTIC ARTISTS

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ADORABLE OWLS CUDDLE UP FOR THE CAMERA

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WOMAN RECORDED VIOLENT BF STRANGLING HER AND THREATENING TO KILL HER WITH A KNIFE- WHEN HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER SHE SAW HIM JAILED

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DANCER REFUSES BIRTHMARK REMOVAL TO KEEP HER INDIVIDUALITY

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INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF INDIANS

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

MY CONTRACTIONS LASTED TWO MONTHS

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ADORABLE YOUNG FALLOW DEER IN LONDON'S BUSHY PARK

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CAT RIPS OFF OWN EARS DUE TO UNTREATED CANCER

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BEING BRITNEY'S LOOKALIKE HAS EARNED ME £300K

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OWNER PREVENTED FROM FINDING CAT UNDER DATA PROTECTION ACT

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