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
While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.
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
Another known cause of red shift in light is the source being in a high gravitational field.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe, which, in turn, meant that the object was a very long distance away.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
