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

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

Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan