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
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
Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
