farthermost

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Though they resemble ordinary stars when viewed through optical telescopes, they are billions of lightyears* away, the farthermost objects in the observable universe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, using the red shift from some quasars as a yardstick indicates that they could be 10 billion or more light-years away�making them the farthermost objects ever observed in the heavens by astronomers.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and romantic."

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned away and nodded to the co-pilot, now savagely keeping the ship in wide, sweeping circles, the rims of which barely touched the farthermost corner of the airport on the ground below.

From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray