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
While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.
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
Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Arp points to other cases in which a galaxy with a small red shift is flanked by two quasars of large and almost identical red shift.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
