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

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

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

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

It was the farthermost point east and north of the Siberian continent.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry