... Every 15 years, as seen from Earth, Saturn's rings point toward the Earth and appear to disappear. ... Against dark rifts of interstellar dust, the ebb and flow of starlight along the Milky Way looks like waves breaking on a cosmic shore in this night skyscape. ... A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long trail of obscuring interstellar dust clouds. ... The featured panorama is a 12-image mosaic taken last month from the Salar de Atacama salt flat in northern Chile. ...