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Kids' Q&A: Questions and answers for kids.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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Q. What causes you to go blind when you look at a solar eclipse? _Melissa Hellings
A. When the moon comes between the sun and Earth, it blocks out a lot of the sun for a few minutes at a time in any one location. The bright light of the sun is cut off to a large degree and this makes it easy to stare at the sun _ without even squinting. If the moon is completely shutting off the sun's rays, called totality, it is OK to look at the sun without special protection. But in a partial eclipse, or as the sun begins to emerge from the eclipse, the infrared radiation is dangerous; it ...
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