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
While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
All galaxies farther away than about 50×106 ly exhibit a red shift in their emitted light that is proportional to distance, with those farther and farther away having progressively greater red shifts.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
So it predicted that the red shift of a galaxy should be directly proportional to its distance from us, exactly as Hubble found.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
