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Well not literally straight behind itself, but wider than 180 degrees. I assume that the front element has an extremely short radius of the inner surface and a large radius of the outer surface. That creates a thin lens on the optical axis and thick towards the edges. Refraction does the rest. Maybe somebody can dig up a diagram of this lens somewhere to illustrate the principle.