Astronomy Picture of the Day . Jupiter, Saturn and Messier 45 . ... Brilliant Venus falls out of the evening sky as March ends, but Jupiter and Saturn remain well up above the western horizon. ... Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903 . ... Moving northward in Earth's sky, today the Sun crosses the celestial equator at 13:31 Universal Time bringing Spring to the north and Fall to the south. ... No spacecraft has yet visited this most distant planet in our Solar System. ... Rockets and Robert Goddard . ...