Have you ever seen a candle in a mirror? The image of the candle looks like the reflected rays seem to be coming from the image point, but they really don’t. This type of image is a virtual images, because it appears that light is coming from this location, but it’s not really the case.

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Virtual images that are formed where light doesn’t actually get to. When you look into the bathroom mirror, it sure looks like you standing a few feet away into the depth of the wall, even though light never gets at that point in space behind the mirror.

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