red shift
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The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2024
Its value is determined by taking the slope of a graph of velocity versus distance, obtained from red shift measurements, such as shown in Figure 34.5.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But such gravitational lensing is also useful in verifying that the red shift is proportional to distance.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
