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
But such gravitational lensing is also useful in verifying that the red shift is proportional to distance.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Discuss how this not only shows that the images are of the same object, but also implies that the red shift is not affected by taking different paths through space.
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
The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
