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
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
He then found that all but the closest galaxies have a red shift in their hydrogen spectra that is proportional to their distance.
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
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
