Question #c67d0

because when a light source is moving away from an observer, the wavelength increases, appearing more towards the red end of the light spectrum as seen by us.

The most prominent motion in the universe is the smooth expansion of the Milky way and the Universe, which is described by the Hubble's law.

Well the formula is;

#V= Ho*D#

V = Observable velocity away from us. ( km/sec)

D = the expanding distance (Mpc = Mega parsac)

Ho = Hubble's Constant.
(Hubble Constant, measured in km/s/Mpc .)

Well; Kiloparsac = 1000 parsac = 3262 light years, to measure the distance between the galaxies )

1 Parsac = 3.26 light-years.

Then maybe; Megaparsac (Mpc) is used to express the distance of the universe )

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/hubbles_law.htm

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