While agreeing that viewing a total solar eclipse is a chance of a lifetime, Vanderbilt Eye Institute Research Director David Calkins urges us to not look at the sun without special eclipse glasses.

Catkins explains how certain spectrums of sunlight can damage your eyesight without you knowing it, until it is too late.

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