red shift
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Its principal task was to show that the gravitational pull of the sun increased the wavelength of light rays, the so-called red shift, which would help verify Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
As galaxies move away from us, their light is shifted to a lower frequency, and so to a longer wavelength—the so-called red shift.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Double the distance, and the red shift is doubled.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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