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  • adjective Whose frequency/wavelength has been changed by a blueshift

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Examples

  • For example, for people on the Shelf, the sky color is "blueshifted" while the lowlands at the bottom of the river appear red in color.

    REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Haber/Strahan 2005

  • Since it moves outwards, it is slightly blueshifted and thus, does not appear directly on top of the absorption line caused by the relatively less dense atmosphere.

    MN112 – A New Luminous Blue Variable Found From Its Nebula? | Universe Today 2010

  • It would need to be a very powerful magnetic field of you are traveling at such speeds, as even optical light would be blueshifted to dangerous frequencies, right?

    Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships | Universe Today 2009

  • In the case of HAT-P-7b the effect was reversed – that is, the redshifted light appeared bluer, then the blueshifted light appeared redder, making it apparent that the orbit of the planet was not in the same direction of that of HAT-P-7.

    Second Exoplanet with Retrograde Orbit Discovered | Universe Today 2009

  • Lastly: I believe that despite this level of detail, this is fundamentally hoi polloi fiction redshifted or, to take our cue from political notation, blueshifted in the direction of complexity, without being, in itself, for the most part, complex.

    Hoi Polloi imago1 2008

  • It would seem easy to disprove this by observation, since light passing close to the sun or some other star would be neutralized if it is blueshifted falling and redshifted by an equal amount climbing out, but if the light is being stretched out as it fell in and stretched as it climbed out, there would be an overall redshift from this passage.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • If it was the radiation that was falling into gravity wells, then maybe it would be blueshifted.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • I suppose it would be essentially whiteshifted (?), since the light is traveling at the speed of light, so there would be no signal preceding it, that would be blueshifted by its approach.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • Light as measured by an observer on the surface of a gravitating body would be blueshifted (compressed), while it is redshifted as measured by an observer watchiing photons emitted from the surface of a gravitating body.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • Light as measured by an observer on the surface of a gravitating body would be blueshifted (compressed), while it is redshifted as measured by an observer watchiing photons emitted from the surface of a gravitating body.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

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