Day 3 - Why We Came To Chile

Today I am going to be talking about why we came to Chile. We came to Coyhaique was because my mum and dad were attending a conference here. The conference is about Astrobiology, a combination of Astronomy, Biology and Geophysics. My mum made a poster for this event. Her poster is about comets in the protoplanetary disk around a young star that can be seen from the southern hemisphere called beta Pictoris.

The conference is being held at a hotel called Dreams Hotel Patagonia. It is on the third floor of the hotel. The hotel is a 15 minute walk away from out house, and we have come here every day so far. The conference has a room filled with the posters that people have made. The main event in the conference is the presentations. The presentations are pretty much just 20 - 25 minute long speeches about Astrobiology.

The reason we are staying so long after the conference is because my mum and dad came to work in the European Southern Observatory (ESO for short) in Santiago.