If a large object passes in front of a more distant background star, it may act as a lens, bending and distorting the light of that star so that it may appear to brighten significantly.

如果一个体积足够大的星体从一个距离很远的恒星前面经过，那么会产生透镜效果，使那个恒星的光线产生弯曲或变形，这样就能很清楚的看到这个星体。

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Shows lens distortion workflow based on re-distorting and compositing with the original image.

显示镜头失真的基础上重新扭曲和合成与原始图像的工作流。

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Even individual truths will be seen through the distorting lens of a false world view.

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It says something about the political class today that the experience of having served in the military is such a rarity that it is seen, not infrequently, through a distorting lens.

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The most distorted galaxies, therefore, were those twice as far from Earth as the gravitational lens distorting them.

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