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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by jfengel on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:37AM (#21283179)
Yes, the wavelength gets longer. That is, in fact, how we measure the distance: for a known frequency (say, the electrons jumping up and down in a hydrogen atom), we observe that this color is "redder" the further away an object is. The number "z" mentioned above is called the redshift because of that, and it's how we know the distances of the furthest objects.

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