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Through the Looking Glass

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The Unconscious Mind

Astronomers were using these very delicate glass plates to capture images from telescopes. The plates were chemically treated so they would respond to light. When you loaded one of these plates into a telescope's camera and opened the shutter, you would get this exquisite little black and white image that was hard to work with. We're traveling through the looking glass to explore strange new worlds using telescopes, microscopes, and even our unconscious minds.

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