When you are driving a car, for instance, nearby things pass more quickly, and faraway objects appear stationary. (scientificamerican.com)
(To measure distances of faraway objects, astronomers rely on redshift, or how much the expansion of space has stretched an object's light to redder wavelengths). (space.com)
Because of the expansion of the universe, light from faraway objects is stretched and shifted toward the red end of the spectrum. (discovermagazine.com)