One of the strongest emission lines observed from distant galaxies comes from hydrogen and has a wavelength of 122 nm (in the ultraviolet region). (a) How fast must a galaxy be moving away from us in order for that line to be observed in the visible region at 366 nm? (b) What would be the wavelength of the line if that galaxy were moving toward us at the same speed?
Stellar evolution
We may see thousands of stars in the dark sky. Our universe consists of billions of stars. Stars may appear tiny to us but they are huge balls of gasses. Sun is a star of average size. Some stars are even a thousand times larger than the sun. The stars do not exist forever they have a certain lifetime. The life span of the sun is about 10 billion years. The star undergoes various changes during its lifetime, this process is called stellar evolution. The structure of the sun-like star is shown below.
Red Shift
It is an astronomical phenomenon. In this phenomenon, increase in wavelength with corresponding decrease in photon energy and frequency of radiation of light. It is the displacement of spectrum of any kind of astronomical object to the longer wavelengths (red) side.
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