Why is it harmful to your eyes to look straight at the sun, but looking at the sun indirectly is fine?

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When I look directly at the sun, it is harmful to my eyes, but if I look at the sky with the sun in view but not directly, somehow it’s fine?

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It’s harmful either way, it’s just more harmful looking directly at it because instead of the suns light being focused on your rarely used and less sensitive peripheral vision it’s focused on the center which is super dense with rods and cones and much more sensitive and important.

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