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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

What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?

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

Figure 34.5 This graph of red shift versus distance for galaxies shows a linear relationship, with larger red shifts at greater distances, implying an expanding universe.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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