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
The explanation is that there is a cosmological red shift due to the expansion of space itself.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
As galaxies move away from us, their light is shifted to a lower frequency, and so to a longer wavelength—the so-called red shift.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Arp points to other cases in which a galaxy with a small red shift is flanked by two quasars of large and almost identical red shift.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
