red shift
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Its principal task was to show that the gravitational pull of the sun increased the wavelength of light rays, the so-called red shift, which would help verify Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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
Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
