Asri-unix.904 net.space utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!KING@KESTREL Fri Mar 5 08:20:40 1982 the distance of quasars We have been running away from the light source (in that source's reference frame) for 10 billion years. It took a while for the photons to overtake us. Put differently, the object's proximity to us at "big bang" time is partially a relativistic compression.