Crowds in China's Hubei province donned special eyewear to avoid retinal damage while staring at the sun

Total Eclipse of the Sun

Hundreds of millions of people flocked outdoors on July 22 to watch the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, a 6-min. spectacle that was visible across wide swaths of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Japan and China

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