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red shift

NOUN
shift in galaxy spectra
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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

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

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

If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift.

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



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