Cosmological Red Shift

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When the spectral lines of distant galaxies and other objects shift to the blue end of the spectrum, it indicates motion toward the Sun (and Earth).

1: True.
2: False
3: There are too many alternative answers to tell
4: False, a blue shift indicates an exceptionally strong gravitational field.

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The Red Shift is an example of...

1: The Stefan-Boltzmann Law.
2: Kepler's Second Law
3: The Doppler Shift
4: Newton's Third Law

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The objects with the greatest red shifts are the ...

1: Black Holes.
2: Pulsars
3: Quasars
4: Cepheid variables

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Who discovered the relationship that shows the farther a galaxy is, the faster it recedes from Earth?

1: Albert Einstein
2: Edwin Hubble
3: Vesto Slipher
4: Alan Sandage

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All galaxies exhibit a red shift relative to Earth

1: True
2: False
3: Astronomers haven't investigated enough galaxies to be sure yet.
4: No, just slightly more than one half of all galaxies exhibits a red shift.

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