English: Figure 2: Images of 3I/ATLAS from Very Large Telescope observations. The colour scale in these images does not reflect the absolute brightness of the comet. White isophotes or contours are only shown in the bottom three images since there are less background stars obstructing the view. The arrows indicate the directions towards the celestial north and east, as well as the Sun-comet direction (yellow arrow) and velocity direction (red arrow) of the comet (which mostly overlap) projected onto the sky. X marks the comet's photocentre, or brightest point.