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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Short momentary flames leaped constantly from its farthermost hedge, with a noise like the rapid slamming of a row of iron doors.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)