mirrors
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Mice Pass the ‘Mirror Test,’ Suggesting They Recognise Themselves
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? In all likelihood, you see a complex shape that you immediately recognize as yourself. Now, a team of researchers has found that mice appear capable of doing the same thing. That’s right: Mice may now join the small cadre of mammals that pass the so-called…
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Webb Telescope Brings a Star Into Focus as It Completes ‘Image Stacking’ Alignment Phase
The Webb telescope has completed the third stage in aligning its mirrors, a crucial process for getting state-of-the-art imagery out of this $US10 ($14) billion space telescope. The feat comes right on time as the telescope heads into the second month of its three-month alignment period.
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Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed
The Webb Space Telescope completed its complex mirror deployment this week, and the observatory is getting tantalizingly close to completing its journey to L2, where it will orbit the Sun a million miles away from Earth.
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Watch An Artist Instantly Create A Mirror With Liquid Silver Nitrate
Video: Although mirrors have been around for thousands of years, a German chemist named Justus von Liebig made a breakthrough that would make the modern manufacture of them possible. Add some sugar to ammoniated silver nitrate, pour it onto glass, and blammo: You have yourself a mirror.