Can we live in space?
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The Ionizing Radiation on the Space Station
The walls of the space station are very thin, which is pretty surprising. When we shut our eyes at night up on space station, you can see what actually looks like a shooting star go by your eyes if you get hit by a piece of radiation. It's not totally clear how this happens, but one theory is that these particles could be hitting astronauts retinas and making their rods and cones fire.
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