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
This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.
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
What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But some other exotic mechanism will be required to explain the red shift.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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