Until you read the explanation, which the article omits. The phenomenon is that an object moving at 0.999c appears rotated, where the leading face appears to be oriented away from the viewer, and the trailing face appears oriented towards the viewer.

By Penrose: "the light from the trailing part reaches the observer from behind the sphere, which it can do since the sphere is continuously moving out of its way".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation

That article has nice diagrams too.

Least click-bait popularmechanics headline.

Similar cool and scientifically correct simulations:

https://www.spacetimetravel.org/

Gosh i sure don’t want that.