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
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
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
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
