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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

What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?

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

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

The apparent recession of the galaxies, with the red shift interpreted through the Doppler effect, is not the only evidence for the Big Bang.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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