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
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
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
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
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