Eastern Time Zone. The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.
This close-up view shows the galaxy MACS0647-JD, the farthest object yet known, as it appears through a gravitational lens imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is 13.3 billion light-years from Earth and formed 420 million years after the Big Bang.
Messier 31 (NGC 224) is better known as the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light years distant. In the past, it was also referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula. Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, and also the farthest object in the night sky visible to the naked eye.