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 size of the redshift-space distortions tells us the rate at which structures grow.
  — Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• The higher the redshift, the farther the object is.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2026
• The higher the redshift, the more stretched the light is, and the farther its source is from Earth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
• 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
• Astronomers can tell their ages based on the stretching of their light into longer wavelengths, known as redshift.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
• Much other work will be done to follow-up the growing list of high redshift candidates.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2022
• In this equation, ψ denotes the star formation rate as a function of the redshift z.
  — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
• Watching the redshift allows astronomers to determine how far away the light came from.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Jan. 2022
• Indeed, researchers find that the redshift and brightness of supernovas scales in just this way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019
• But the story of dark energy doesn't get told by neighborhood redshifts.
  — Paul Sutter Astrophysicist, Fox News, 30 June 2017
• Here’s what does, and doesn’t, apply to gravitational waves as far as redshifts go.
  — Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
• The redshift is stretching of early universe light due to the expansion of the universe.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
• 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
• One way is by using a technique called photometric redshift.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
• That’s not just an equality; that’s the very definition of redshift.
  — Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
• This phenomenon is called redshift—and the farther away an object is, the higher the redshift.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
• In reality, though, the redshift is due to the expansion of space, not to the galaxy speeding away from you faster and faster.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• If the light exhibited no redshift at all, then the emitted wavelength (λe) and the observed wavelength (λo) will be equal.
  — Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
• The cosmic microwave background was produced at a redshift of about 1,000.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• The redshift of the quasar's light also lowered the frequency of the fluctuations.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026
• Distant objects appear just as crisp as nearby ones, and light of all wavelengths redshifts by identical factors.
  — Big Think, 6 Mar. 2026
• As the universe expands, galaxies are moving away from us, resulting in redshift.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 4 July 2023
• The star-formation rate in the Universe is a function of redshift, which is itself a function of cosmic time.
  — Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
• The bigger the redshift, the faster a galaxy moves away from us, and the Hubble constant can be calculated from this.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• In that case, the redshift (z) equals zero, because the ratio of the observed wavelength to the emitted wavelength equals 1.
  — Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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