How to Use redshift in a Sentence
redshift
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The higher the redshift, the farther away – and back in time – the source.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 Apr. 2023
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The higher the redshift value, the more the light has been stretched and the more distant and aged the galaxy is.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
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That was first confirmed with the measurement of a redshift in the starlight of a white dwarf star in 1954.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
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The size of the redshift-space distortions tells us the rate at which structures grow.
—Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
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The more space there is between us and a distant galaxy, the more stretch can happen as the light travels, and the greater the redshift.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
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This flips the sign of the frequency change caused by the distance to the far away object, while the sign of the redshift will be the same for both measurements.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2018
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The redshift is stretching of early universe light due to the expansion of the universe.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
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In the months since the first papers, the ages of some of the alleged high-redshift galaxies have been reconsidered.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
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The cosmic microwave background was produced at a redshift of about 1,000.
—Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
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Indeed, researchers find that the redshift and brightness of supernovas scales in just this way.
—Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019
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Watching the redshift allows astronomers to determine how far away the light came from.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Jan. 2022
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Much other work will be done to follow-up the growing list of high redshift candidates.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2022
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Galaxies twice as far away had twice the redshift, while galaxies 10 times farther had 10 times the redshift, and so on.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
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Just a few months ago a redshift of 8, which corresponds to a time when the universe was about 646 million years old, was considered a high redshift.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
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Ultimately, the project found and studied more than 1,500 of the telltale stellar explosions, many of them with high redshifts from the far depths of the cosmos.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
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The spectrum was measured by how much a galaxy’s light is stretched by the expansion of the universe, and in the case of the most distant galaxy known, it was measured with a redshift of about 14.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 31 May 2024
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The deeper into the infrared the boundary between invisible and visible is, the stronger the redshift, and the more distant the object is.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 July 2022
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But the story of dark energy doesn't get told by neighborhood redshifts.
—Paul Sutter Astrophysicist, Fox News, 30 June 2017
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To get a distance to a galaxy, astronomers split its light into a spectrum and measure its redshift, or the stretching of its light by the expansion of the universe.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
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But the striking thing is that there is data for a galaxy at an extremely large redshift (z = 16.7, for those who understand these things).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 July 2022
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The two teams in the 1990s chose to plot redshift (velocity) on the x axis and apparent magnitude (distance) on the y axis.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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Astronomers have noticed a few glowing supermassive black holes at a redshift of 6 or 7, about a billion years after the Big Bang.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
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Some of the most distant objects astronomers study can only be seen in infrared due to a phenomenon called redshift.
—Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
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So there’s a process that happens in the universe during expansion called redshift, where radiation is stretched out to longer wavelengths.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
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Astronomers first studied faraway star surfaces by looking at the redshift or blueshift of light coming from the stars, a technique called Doppler imaging that reveals movement on the stars' surfaces.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
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For example, a light bulb that emits pure violet light, if placed in a region of the cosmos roughly corresponding to a redshift of 1 as seen from Earth, would appear as deep red.
—Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
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But, this also means targets with a higher redshift literally appear red, or even shine mostly in the infrared.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2023
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As the universe expands, galaxies are moving away from us, resulting in redshift.
—Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 4 July 2023
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The redshift of light — literally, light from distant galaxies stretched and shifted toward the red part of the spectrum — is what has long helped to inform physicists' estimates of the universe's age.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
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As the Universe expands, the wavelength of the light traveling through it stretches towards longer and longer wavelengths: a cosmological redshift.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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