How is the Expansion of the Universe Related to the Doppler Effect?

Simone Lilavois
7 min readFeb 8, 2021
Source: Universe Today

Have you ever wondered why the pitch of a siren drops while an ambulance passes by? Or wondered how scientists discovered that the universe was expanding? Well, believe it or not, the answers to those two questions are deeply related through something called the Doppler effect.

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Simone Lilavois

Simone Lilavois is a NYC high school student passionate about understanding the nature of life in relation to the Cosmos.