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How did Hubble use the cosmological redshift to determine distance?
 
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The signature of a planet is largest in radial velocity measurements when the planet and star are lined up along the line of sight to the telescope.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The redshift is caused by the Doppler effect as a result of the galaxy's velocity. Hubble found that when known galactic distances (determined with a standard candle) were plotted with the recessional velocity, all the data fell on a straight line. The slope of this line is Hubble's constant. This allowed him to use a measured redshift (or calculated velocity) to read the distance off the plot, or to use the equation to calculate the distance.

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