The bizarre crescent-shaped wound sustained by 26-year-old Nia Payne during the total solar eclipse in August has recently been described in a scientific paper by researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
The study, published on December 7 in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, aims to understand how a solar eclipse can cause eye damage, by analyzing the affected retina with state-of-the-art technology.
Payne suffered the eye injury while attempting to view the solar eclipse on August 21. At the time, the young woman was in Staten Island, New York, trying to take a glimpse of the historic eclipse. Unfortunately, she wasn’t adequately prepared to watch the event and didn’t have the proper protective glasses.
According to the Washington Post, Payne stared directly into the sun — which at that moment was only 70 percent obscured by the moon — for about six seconds, before she borrowed a pair of glasses from a woman nearby.
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