This one fits today's Independence Day celebration to a tee: You are looking at the remnant of a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago. The red stripe, called the SN 1006 Supernova Remnant, is actually a ribbon of gas that floats in our galaxy as captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: Link - via Newslite.tv
Hmm, I suspect that fly's to blame for my dysentery.