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

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

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

By week's end the alarm had spread to the farthermost corners of the Soviet empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

A horseman had just appeared at the farthermost end of the avenue.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)