If you feel like everything has been getting faster lately, you're not alone.

Astrophysicists, including Brad Tucker at the Australian National University, have calculated the most accurate measurement yet for the expansion rate of the nearby universe.

ANU astronomer Brad Tucker. Credit:Stuart Hay/ANU

They've found that in our little corner of the cosmos everything is flying apart quite a bit quicker than we've previously thought.

Within 10 billion years, the distance between local galaxies will double. That means something a bit odd is going on.