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

But such gravitational lensing is also useful in verifying that the red shift is proportional to distance.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The red shift of the intervening galaxy is always less than that of the one being lensed, and each image of the lensed galaxy has the same red shift.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

So it predicted that the red shift of a galaxy should be directly proportional to its distance from us, exactly as Hubble found.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking