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/ 6 September 2006

In Chile, the sharpest eye on Earth is being built

High on the driest desert on the planet, an army of international scientists is assembling earth’s most powerful observatory to search for the answers of the universe. Known by its English-language initials Alma — or ”soul” in Spanish — the ambitious radio-telescope array will be the first global astronomical project, a European, United States and Japanese collaboration in which Chile is participating.