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

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

Before we get to the Doppler effect as it pertains to the red shift, let’s see how it works on something more tangible.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe, which, in turn, meant that the object was a very long distance away.

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