The left hand and the right hand are 'mirror images' (of each other). = The left hand is the/a 'mirror image' of the right hand.
He's the 'mirror image' [=(more commonly) 'spitting image'] of his father. [=he looks just like his father]
She is worried about what motherhood will do to her 'image' [='reputation'] as a rock star.
(..) to make it comprehensible. We created the scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale. what governs all that? Form a car speeding down the road... speed up the image infinitely and the car disappears. So, what proof do we have of its existence? Time gives legitimacy to its existence. (..)2014 Lucy