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
Its value is determined by taking the slope of a graph of velocity versus distance, obtained from red shift measurements, such as shown in Figure 34.5.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Another known cause of red shift in light is the source being in a high gravitational field.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But some other exotic mechanism will be required to explain the red shift.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
