A woman who stared into this summer’s solar eclipse now sees a dark spot in the center of her eye as new scans reveal she has a crescent-shaped shadow on her retina.
Nia Payne, 26, was outside of her boyfriend’s Staten Island office watching the moon pass over the sun like the millions of others around the country this August when she looked into the eclipse for just a few seconds.
Six hours later there was a dark spot covering her vision and the next day went to the emergency room. Doctors later diagnosed her with solar retinopathy, eye damage from exposure to radiation.
A new report published today shows a crescent shape on her retina where the damage is worse in her dominant left eye and more manageable in her right.
