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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

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

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

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

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