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While watching a planet orbiting a star, you notice that the doppler shift in the light of the star is becoming increasingly blueshifted. What must be happening to cause this?.

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The star must be moving "closer" to the earth because the wave fronts that are being emitted are shifted toward the blue end of the spectrum (they are closer together)

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