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
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
But some other exotic mechanism will be required to explain the red shift.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
