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Red light has the lowest frequency of all the colors in the rainbow, so if a galaxy is moving away from us, the colors of all its spectral lines will be redshifted, shifted toward redder colors, and the higher its speed, the greater its redshift. If the galaxy is moving toward us, its colors will instead be blueshifted toward higher frequencies.
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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