But it is not just the light from the distant quasar that carries information about the composition of the Universe.
Its gravitational field thus bends and focuses the light from the distant object, making it appear closer than it really is.
Questions from the distant past, even about unrelated matters, were flung at him with no opportunity for him to give thoughtful answers.
When the social web emerged, folks in my cohort found ourselves reconnecting with some familiar names and faces from the distant past.
Centuries passed, these fables became legends, and pilgrims from the distant reaches of Asia sought out the mystic city of the gods.
Walking past the busts of notable scholars, each with solemn visage gazing out from the distant past, I pass shelf after shelf crammed with learning.
At best, the argument is out of date, stemming from the distant days when the government had huge majorities and little idea what to do with them.
Because light takes so long to reach the earth from distant galaxies, astronomers were able to study the value of alpha in light from the distant past.
The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.
Young students, including many from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, expressed their alienation from the distant bureaucrats in Brussels as well as their own national political leaders who seem out of touch with the concerns of daily life.
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Background is brought to foreground in a wealth of reminiscences, interviews with surviving members, film clips from the distant past and superb concert footage from the recent past, when the reunited Funk Brothers played at Detroit's Royal Oak Music Theater behind such singers as Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Meshell Ndegeocello.
The dominant narrative of the Tea Party as an extremist fringe group isolated from the American mainstream is distant from the truth.
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The world's glaciers are slowly melting, and as they do, artifacts from the near and distant past are emerging from the ice.
The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
This time they're focusing on the chopping and changing over the precise aircraft which will fly from the new carriers on the distant day when they become operational.
The FTC's narrow definition played up the likely effect on prices from the loss of that rivalry but ignored the more distant challenge from ordinary supermarkets.
But the courts are not as distant from the political process as some like to think.
Together, these early telescopes found neutrinos from the sun, and from distant supernovae.
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This is why the ASEAN states are keeping equally distant from the great powers in the region.
Guernsey's Bailiff believes the island should seek to be more distant from the control of the UK Government.
This eponymous theory is that large masses (such as the moon) partially block the gravitational force from more distant objects (such as the sun).
Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa, safely distant from the Persian Gulf, and has historically cosy relations with American oil firms.
In fact, the best form of public relations is quite distant from the Ab Fab image: less glamorous, more subtle and a great deal more difficult.
The mice the two independent labs used were several generations distant from the original strain or grown from preserved embryos, and in that interval, any number of changes could have happened in gene sequences or to affect how the animal uses the gene.
Giuliani had always been obsessively overprepared, and now Siegel could only surmise that in the years since the World Trade Center bombings Giuliani had become too distant from the fray.
During the Renaissance, ideas from Middle Eastern cultures and the distant Mongolian Empire were on the verge of changing the basic notion of what it meant to be a European Christian.
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Careful studies of the shifted light from distant supernovae were what first demonstrated an acceleration in this expansion of the Universe, leading to the 2011 Nobel prize in physics.
His mother wants some of their male neighbors to carry the body on foot from a distant hospital so that her husband will remember the road home for eternity.
So extraordinary was this particular bubble that there really seemed no reason for it at all: the economy was motoring along nicely, and deflation was but a distant memory from the 1930s.
On the economic front, weakness from the financial crisis following the peso devaluation in late 1994 and the relative hiccup from the 1998 Asian crisis are now distant memories.
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