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Astronomical application

Photometric Redshifts

Estimating how far away a galaxy is from its brightness in a few broad colour bands, without taking a full spectrum. It is far less precise than a spectroscopic redshift but can be done for the hundreds of millions of galaxies in an imaging survey, underpinning weak-lensing and large-scale-structure cosmology.

Highlights

  • Redshifts for hundreds of millions of galaxies

Used across astro-ML

Knowledge connections

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.