Well, happy new year and welcome to 2021.

To get this new year started with a bang,

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into one of our other programs for you this week.

In our Naked Astronomy series,

one of the sectors leading lights lights joins Adam Murphy and Ben

McAllister each month to probe deep into their field of space science.

And most recently, Dark Matter went under the microscope.

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really help naked scientist dot com forward slash donate Scientists. big universe. That means that each episode I, Ben McAllister.

And I Adam Murphy will take a look at one of the biggest cosmic questions in the world of

space science and astronomy today. We'll break down the basics for you and then pull in an expert guest for a more in-depth chat.

Last month we spoke about something pretty down to Earth, the square kilometer array

which will be the biggest telescope ever built by human beings when it's complete. a something very close to my heart. We are going to dig into the question, what is

dark matter? Our listeners may not know that you're something of a dark matter

expert yourself, aren't you Ben? That's right. For anyone who doesn't know, I'm a physicist

and dark matter detection is the very thing that I spend most of my days working on.

Of course, we won't be answering the question what is dark matter because as we'll discuss, nobody knows.

That's right, it's the reason I still have a job, but we've got a special guest expert

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