Recognizing+Redshift

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Redshift is the shift of the light to a longer wavelength due to the object moving away from us the observer. Opposite to this is the blue shift where the object is moving towards the observer giving us a shorter wavelength. This picture above gives a great visual of what the blue or red shift does.

Now that you can recognize what redshift is you can learn to calculate the magnitude of its shift here