How do bright lights damage our eyes? Are UV/IR lights more detrimental, such as when looking at the sun?
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They damage them by burning directly into the back of your eye, generally the macula (centre vision), like a magnifying glass through your pupil. Exactly how your skin burns when you get to much sun, except the eye is far more delicate. Let the light sit in one spot long enough the burn grows deeper, causing solar retinopathy.
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