distant

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Baer-Way explained that stars in distant galaxies are typically too faint to study in detail before they explode.

From Science Daily

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely powerful flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds and come from distant galaxies.

From Science Daily

I promise myself I will hold on to my language, no matter how far away we go, how many seas we cross, how distant I am from the almond-scented streets of this land.

From Literature

In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.

From Barron's

White matter consists of long axons of neurons that transmit impulses to more distant regions of the brain and spinal cord.

From BBC