There is risk to your skin. Have you not heard of sunscreen?
Also, the ‘eclipse’ in particular is not more dangerous to your eyes then staring at the sun on a random day. In fact for the ~1-2 minutes of the actual eclipse where the sun is fully blocked, you are fine to look directly at it (because the sun is blocked).
Your eyes are less protected and more sensitive to light than skin so always a bad idea to stare directly at the sun.
Yes, no risk to the skin, so please go watch the eclipse naked wearing only goggles, and also drop a giant cacca while at that coz eclipse cacca is the best fertilizer for the earth.
The sun emits the same amount of UV rays during an eclipse as it does any other day. It will effect you skin the same way it does every day. No change there. Your eyes are different though. Since it will be darker, you're pupils will dilate to allow for more light to get in. The problem is that will also allow more UV rays to hit your retina, potentially burning it.
By McKenzie Denton HamSCI Citizen Science Team Member
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The eclipse is not dangerous to your eyes, its staring at the sun thats the problem.
Not just today, but any day.
Exactly. The two-fold issue, and the reason they warn about eclipses, is that there's less apparent light in your eyes so people might be apt to stare longer (think how quickly your eyes hurt if you look into a normal sun), and also the fact that people will just tend to look longer at an interesting thing happening up there, as opposed to the ordinary sun disk we see all the time.