In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost pe
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- In 2017, a woman watched a solar eclipse for seconds. Days later, she discovered an eclipse-shaped blind spot in her eye The Times of India · 14d ago
- She watched the 2017 solar eclipse for just few seconds. It left a crescent-shaped blind spot in her visio The Economic Times · 14d ago
- I was blinded by a solar eclipse The Sun · 14d ago
- In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost pe Space Daily · 14d ago broke it first
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