farthermost
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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
Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
At the farthermost end of the cave the granite wall remained as ever, immobile and formidable.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles
