farthermost

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All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years.

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

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

When the light we see today left the farthermost quasars, the earth and the solar system had not yet been born.

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"You must have run at full speed from the farthermost outworks."

From The Minute Boys of York Town by Otis, James