farthermost
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While strict interpretation of Hubble's law would place the farthermost quasars more than 8 billion light-years from the earth, Schmidt refuses to assign a specific distance for any beyond the closest: 3C 273.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
By week's end the alarm had spread to the farthermost corners of the Soviet empire.
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
High Mississippi" by saying, "Beyond reasonable doubt our party is the only one that ever pushed its way by boat up the entire course of the farthermost Mississippi.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
