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

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

But such gravitational lensing is also useful in verifying that the red shift is proportional to distance.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us.

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