It's true! The woman in her 20s, mentioned in this article, literally got 70% eclipse-shaped burns on her retinas after looking at a 70% eclipse. She swears she only ever looked at it for six seconds at a time. Immediately afterwards she felt normal, but over the next few hours noticed a "crescent-shaped" blind spot, which was visible to ophthalmologists as a burn on the retina. In another case, four women in Ireland stared at the sun during a religious ceremony and still had vision loss up to eleven years later. Staring at the sun is bad.
It's true! The woman in her 20s, mentioned in this article, literally got 70% eclipse-shaped burns on her retinas after looking at a 70% eclipse. She swears she only ever looked at it for six seconds at a time. Immediately afterwards she felt normal, but over the next few hours noticed a "crescent-shaped" blind spot, which was visible to ophthalmologists as a burn on the retina. In another case, four women in Ireland stared at the sun during a religious ceremony and still had vision loss up to eleven years later. Staring at the sun is bad.
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