Cosmic Shadow

Caption NASA:"Blazing like an icy torch, the plume of Enceladus shines in scattered sunlight as the moon casts a shadow onto Saturn's E-Ring. Some of the tiny ice particles erupted from the moon's South Polar Region go into Saturn orbit, forming the doughnut-shaped ring, onto which the moon's shadow is cast in this view.
The shadow of Enceladus stretches away to the upper left at around the 10 o'clock position. The Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 164° here, with the Sun being located toward the lower right. This means that Enceladus' shadow extends toward the Cassini spacecraft -- through part of the E-Ring.
Some of the bright dots in this heavily processed view are background stars. Others are due to cosmic ray hits on the camera detector.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 11, 2006 at a distance of approx. 2.2 MKM (about 1,3 MMs) from Enceladus. Image scale is roughly 13 Km (about 8 miles) per pixel".