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.
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.t spins on its own axis every 16 hours compared to 24 hours on Earth. Due to its far distance from the sun Neptune has an extremely cold outer atmosphere with temperatures averaging around -220C (-364F).