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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An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
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This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .