31.   Scientists reported that the lensing effects of intervening intergalactic matter on light from extremely distant celestial objects appear to reflect the amount of energy in the universe.

32.   Some of the faintest of the radiation sources, astronomers said, could be the most distant objects ever observed.

33.   Suddenly, Spinrad said, he and his colleagues got the idea that the object might just be the most distant object ever seen in the universe.

34.   Such an event occurs when a distant object passes behind a closer one.

35.   That creates a sort of bifocal vision, with the right eye to focus on distant objects and the left eye for close-up reading.

36.   The array is designed to see high-resolution detail of relatively nearby stars, rather than looking at distant objects near the edge of the universe.

37.   The agent found an expert on thermal imaging who used a device that could detect heat emissions from distant objects that would otherwise be invisible.

38.   The degree and type of distortion of the image of a distant object also reveal information about the sometimes invisible gravitational lens in the foreground.

39.   The galaxy found by the Hubble ranks as the most distant object ever seen by humans, although few scientists doubt that this mark will soon fall too.

40.   The instrument requires cool detectors to measure the heat of distant objects.