The Big Bang, red-shift and the expanding Universe

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A specific spectral line of helium has a wavelength of 5.88 × 10-7 m when measured in a laboratory on Earth. When analyzing the light from a distant galaxy, astronomers measure the wavelength of this same line to be 6.15 × 10-7 m.

Explain how this observation provides evidence that the Universe is expanding.

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