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.
Scientists know that the universe is expanding. Thus, while scientists might see a spot that lay 13.8 billion light-years from Earth at the time of the Big Bang, the universe has continued to expand over its lifetime.Today, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years.[ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ]. Centering a sphere on Earth's location in space might seem to put mankind in the center of the universe.oday, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years. [ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ].