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Why is the west limb of the sun red-shifted and the east limb blue-shifted?
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∙ 11y ago
Because the sun is rotating. So its west limb is moving away from us
and its east limb is moving toward us ... the exact conditions required
in order to shift the emission spectrum.
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∙ 11y ago
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