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
What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?
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
The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn’t tell us how far away they are to begin with.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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