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 THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
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A weightlifter has lost a whopping 12st after swapping biscuits for biceps .
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