A View from the Zone . ... Credit Copyright: Jack Fusco Explanation: Brilliant Venus and the central Milky Way rise in the early morning hours of March 1 in this sea and skyscape. The scene looks out from a beach at Sea Isle City, New Jersey, USA, planet Earth. Of course, Earth orbits well within the solar system's habitable zone , that Goldilocks region not too close and not too far from the Sun where surface temperatures can support liquid water. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...