How to Use redshift in a Sentence

redshift

noun

• The higher the redshift, the farther away – and back in time – the source.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The size of the redshift-space distortions tells us the rate at which structures grow.
  — Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• The redshift is stretching of early universe light due to the expansion of the universe.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The cosmic microwave background was produced at a redshift of about 1,000.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Indeed, researchers find that the redshift and brightness of supernovas scales in just this way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019
• Watching the redshift allows astronomers to determine how far away the light came from.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Jan. 2022
• Much other work will be done to follow-up the growing list of high redshift candidates.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the story of dark energy doesn't get told by neighborhood redshifts.
  — Paul Sutter Astrophysicist, Fox News, 30 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As the universe expands, galaxies are moving away from us, resulting in redshift.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 4 July 2023
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024