Magnetic mirror

Have you ever played with magnets and noticed that they can "bounce" off each other? That's kind of what a magnetic mirror does!

Imagine you have a big magnet in the shape of a tube. You also have a bunch of little magnets, like the ones you can stick on your fridge. If you shoot those little magnets into the tube, some of them will "bounce" back out the way they came, like they hit a mirror.

That's because the big magnet inside the tube is creating a magnetic field that bounces the little magnets back. It's like a mirror that reflects magnets instead of light.

Scientists can use these magnetic mirrors to control how things move in space. For example, they might send a spacecraft through a magnetic mirror to slow it down, or use it to keep particles trapped in a particular area.

So basically, a magnetic mirror is a tool that uses magnets to control how things move, like a really cool magnet maze!