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 explanation is that there is a cosmological red shift due to the expansion of space itself.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
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
While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
