Eastern Standard Time (EST) or UTC/GMT -5. The Eastern Time Zone is also known as Eastern Standard Time (EST) falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its time offset is â5 hours (UTC/GMT -5) during standard time and â4 hours (UTC/GMT -4) during daylight saving time. The time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 75th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. In the United States and Canada, this time zone is generally called Eastern Time (ET). Specifically, it is Eastern Standard Time (EST) when standard time is observed (winter), and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) when daylight saving time is observed (spring, summer and autumn).
Astronomers have found what appears to be the farthest known galaxy in the universe. The galaxy MACS0647-JD is 13.3 billion light-years from Earth and was born 420 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have found what appears to be the farthest known galaxy in the universe.
(In fact, Neptune is currently the farthest planet from the Sunâ¹since the early 1970s, Pluto has been closer to the Sun than Neptune has, and it will remain so until the end of this century.) * At this distance, Neptune receives nearly 1,000 times less sunlight than Earth, and about two and one-half times less than Uranus, but its overall temperature is about the same as that of Uranus.