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Is the sun red shifted or blue shifted?


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Explanation:

  1. The displacement of the red lines in the spectrum of the Sun caused by its gravitational field is known as gravitational redshift.
  2. According to Einstein, the Sun's theoretical redshift should be about two millionths of a wavelength.

Hence, the sun is red-shifted.


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