Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Brilliant Venus, a slender crescent Moon, and lights along the Ponte 25 de Abril glow against the western twilight in this lovely moonset scene from Lisbon, Portugal, recorded on March 20. ... Of course, on that day the Moon rose with the Sun, creating a widely enjoyed partial solar eclipse. ... On Moonday, March 19, shortly before the equinox, locations in Asia and the Arctic were favoured by the New Moon's shadow during a partial solar eclipse. ... Eiffel Moon . ...