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A man with his back to the camera stares directly at a twilight sun. — A man sungazing

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Sungazing is the unsafe practice of looking directly at the Sun. It is sometimes done as part of a spiritual or religious practice, most often near dawn or dusk.^[1] The human eye is very sensitive, and exposure to direct sunlight can lead to solar retinopathy, pterygium,^[2] cataracts,^[3] and potentially blindness.^[4]^[5]^[6] Studies have shown that even when viewing a solar eclipse the eye can still be exposed to harmful levels of ultraviolet radiation.^[7]

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