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
Figure 34.5 This graph of red shift versus distance for galaxies shows a linear relationship, with larger red shifts at greater distances, implying an expanding universe.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This verification supplies more evidence that red shift is proportional to distance.
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
