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
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
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
What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn’t tell us how far away they are to begin with.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
