Mirrors are used to gather light and create images, like the mirror in your bathroom or those found in telescopes. We’re going to actually make a telescope a little later, but now we need to learn how the mirror makes an image in the first place.

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To see an object (without a mirror), you have to be in the object’s line of sight so the light reflected from the object can hit your eye. Pretty easy, right?

What has to happen to see an object in a mirror?

You can only see objects in the mirror when you are in the line of sight of the image.

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