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.
1 Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun and the fourth largest. 2  It has a diameter of 30,775 miles (49,528 km) which is four times larger than Earth. 3  Neptune is 30 times further away from the sun than Earth is.4  The dwarf planet Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit every 248 years, for periods of 20 years. Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun and the fourth largest. 2  It has a diameter of 30,775 miles (49,528 km) which is four times larger than Earth. 3  Neptune is 30 times further away from the sun than Earth is. 4  The dwarf planet Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit every 248 years, for periods of 20 years.