This Is Why You Shouldn't Look Directly At The Sun Through A Telescope

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This Is Why You Shouldn't Look Directly At The Sun Through A Telescope

G. Clay Whittaker

at 10:26 AM May 6 2016

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This Is Why You Shouldn't Look Directly At The Sun Through A Telescope

Pig Eye Sun Damage

Mark Thompson via YouTube

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Ever wonder what would happen to your eye if you stared at the sun through a telescope? What's the worst that could happen, right? Well apparently it literally burns a hole into your eye, or at least that's what happened when some Youtube scientists held a pig's eye up to the eyepiece of a telescope for a few seconds.

Take a look, at your own peril.

The whole experiment was done as a reminder that eclipses (and Mercury fly-bys) are a terrible thing to view with a telescope, or with the naked eye, if you ever want to view anything else again.

H/T: [IFL Science]