eli5 How do we see so far into space? Wouldn’t stars block each other in front of the “camera”?

Question

I imagine it like looking at a a forest, you see the first couple trees very clear, and the farther you look into the forest you see less and less trees, because the view is blocked? So how can we see stars so far deep into space? Wouldn’t the stars block each others view?

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Simply put, the objects infront, are so massive that light tends to follow the curve of space around that object.

This affect is called Gravitational Lensing.