High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chile can be considered the capital of Astronomy in the world, nowadays (2011) it gathers 42% of Astronomy Infrastructure and by 2018 will concentrate the 70% of the global infrastructure of telescopes. In the north of the country, the skies are clean and dry for more than 300 days a year. These optimal conditions have led the scientific world to develop the most ambitious astronomical projects in history of man kind, in the Atacama desert.