Number 48 (Story #3), September 19, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE FARTHEST QUASAR EVER OBSERVED , with a redshift of 4.897, has been discovered by a Princeton-Caltech team using the Hale Telescope (the finding is reported in the September issue of The Astronomical Journal). The same team, led by Maarten Schmidt of Caltech, had found the previously-known farthest quasar. (New Scientist, 14 September 1991.)