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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

The explanation is that there is a cosmological red shift due to the expansion of space itself.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The red shift of the intervening galaxy is always less than that of the one being lensed, and each image of the lensed galaxy has the same red shift.

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

Arp points to other cases in which a galaxy with a small red shift is flanked by two quasars of large and almost identical red shift.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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