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An astronomer explains how to safely watch the 2017 solar eclipse

An astronomer explains how to safely watch the 2017 solar eclipse

Everyone knows that you should not look at the sun! Not with your naked eye, not with sunglasses and certainly not with binoculars or with a telescope. Our sun might be just an ordinary star, but it’s extremely close to us—about 269,000 times closer than the next nearest star. This makes the sun very, very…