Expansion of the Universe and Red Shift of Cosmic Background

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Channel: Animations for Physics and Astronomy · 2008 · Education

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As the universe expands (represented by the expanding balloon) the cosmic background (represented by the wavy line) gets stretched out to longer and longer wavelengths (distance between peaks on the wavy line).

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