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They’re using a signed 32-bit integer which can overflow to negative numbers. An unsigned integer would roll over to just 0, but then the joke wouldn’t work.


I think the object pictures is HH30 (HH for Herbig-Haro object.
What you can see is the proto planetary disk around a newly formed star and the jets of matter ejected by the star.
The disk will later collapse into the planets orbiting the star and the jets will fade.
Edit: For these kinds of objects, the stars are often not fully formed, hence they are called proto stars.