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.
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A mum-of-one was left looking like a ‘monster’ after suffering a horrific allergic reaction to hair dye while pregnant .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
When Louise Steen walked down the aisle, she imagined a perfect future with her older hubby – but her life would soon become a living hell .
A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .
A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .