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

Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.

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

All galaxies farther away than about 50×106 ly exhibit a red shift in their emitted light that is proportional to distance, with those farther and farther away having progressively greater red shifts.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn’t tell us how far away they are to begin with.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson