  We report the detection of dark energy near the Milky Way made with precision
observations of the local Hubble flow of expansion. We estimate the local
density of dark energy and find that it is near, if not exactly equal to, the
global dark energy density. The result is independent of, compatible with, and
complementary to the horizon-scale observations in which dark energy was first
discovered. Together with the cosmological concordance data, our result forms
direct observational evidence for the Einstein antigravity as a universal
phenomenon -- in the same sense as the Newtonian universal gravity.
