[techsupporter]

Another instrument took an image of an exoplanet, in 2005.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/300/2m1207b-first-imag...

[duckmysick]

Your LLM needs fine-tuning, the linked article says it's 2004:

> 2M1207b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf. It was imaged the first time by the VLT in 2004.