Astronomy in Chile and Universidad de Concepción. CATA develops nine different areas: 6 focused in scientific research, 3 focused on technology advances, and 1 on Education & Outreach (to students, teachers and general public). This Center its mainly dedicated to supernovae research, it gathers astronomers from: Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Andrés Bello. Further information on Extremely large telescope. In Chile there are more than 100 astronomers, some are: Astronomy in Chile Chile can be considered astronomy's world capital. In 2011, Chile was home to 42% of the world's astronomical infrastructure consisting mostly of telescopes, and by 2020
Antisemitism in Chile of Ashkenazi background. Chile is home to the third-largest Jewish community in South America. The first Jews arrived in Chile with the Spanish "conquistadors". These were Jewish converts to Catholicism because, at the time of the Inquisition, had to hide their Jewish origin living. Most of this immigration occurred in the early years of the conquest, fleeing religious persecution in Spain, since in the Americas is not yet the court of the Inquisition installed. Diego García de Cáceres, faithful friend and executor of the founder of Santiago, Pedro de Valdivia, was one of them. In colonial times, the most prominent