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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

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