A solar eclipse can cook your eyes. Here's when to put the glasses on.

Millions of people are about to have the rare opportunity to look directly at the sun. Those within the corridor created by the moon's shadow — aka the "path of totality" — will get up to 4.5 minutes to take a gander with the naked eye during the total solar eclipse on April 8.If that statement raises your hackles, you're not alone. Parents have scolded children likely for centuries — long before NASA — on the dangers of staring at the sun. And it's so ingrained in humans