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Astronauts on the International Space Station see flashes with their eyes closed as cosmic rays pass through the eye and turn space radiation into brief sparks of light


NASA has documented cosmic-ray flashes seen by astronauts in orbit, a strange spaceflight experience that begins with invisible particles and ends as sudden

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