a change in the way that light reaches the earth from stars and other objects in space because they are moving away from the earth
Red shift
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a process in which the light coming from far away objects in space is seen to move from the blue end of the spectrum (= the range of colours into which a beam of light can be separated) to the red end as it moves farther away, because the wavelengths (= the distances between the waves of energy) become longer:
Red shift meaning & definition 1 of Red shift.
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a change in the way that light reaches the earth from stars and other objects in space because they are moving away from the earth
Red shift meaning & definition 2 of Red shift.
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