What are redshift and blueshift In Astronomy?

1 Answer
chandramohanPanakkal
Feb 11, 2016

When a light source is coming towards you the waves get compressed and i is called blue shift.

Explanation:

When the light source is going away from you the waves get elongated and we call mit red shift.![ http://en.wikipedia.org](https://useruploads.socratic.org/xadzh57gRvOBfzZex8VV_download.png)

Picture credit En.wikipeida.org.

Related questions
See all questions in Astronomy Basics
Impact of this question
1770 views around the world
You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License