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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Redshifted

"The faster that galaxy is moving from us, the further away it must be – and the more redshifted its light will be when we analyse it back here on Earth." (BBC.)

Is "redshifted" an adjective or a past participle of the verb "to redshift" in the above?
  

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Anonymous Is "redshifted" an adjective or a past participle of the verb "to redshift" in the above? I don't think that "redshift" has been used as a verb. " Edwin Hubble discovered that further the galaxy, the more redshifted its spectral lines are.

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  • Anonymous Is "redshifted" an adjective or a past participle of the verb "to redshift" in the above?
  • I don't think that "redshift" has been used as a verb.
  • " Edwin Hubble discovered that further the galaxy, the more redshifted its spectral lines are.
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AnonymousIs "redshifted" an adjective or a past participle of the verb "to redshift" in the above?
I don't think that "redshift" has been used as a verb. It is an adjective meaning that the spectral lines are not in their normal position, but they have shifted to the shorter wavelengths - "shifted to the red end of the spectrum." Edwin Hubble discovered that
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