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What does a blue shift in light from stars indicate?

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Answer:

If a star is moving towards the earth, its light is shifted to higher frequencies on the color spectrum (towards the green/blue/violet/ultraviolet/x-ray/gamma-ray end of the spectrum). A higher frequency shift is called a "blue shift".

Step-by-step explanation:

It just means that the entire spectrum is shifted up in frequency.

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