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by sebk 1233 days ago
For what it's worth, ChatGPT is also wrong: https://i.imgur.com/CsQyEc2.png. The correct answer is https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/300/2m1207b-first-imag... as techsupporter posted in a sibling comment
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For what it's worth, thats not accurate - a spectrograph was used in 1995 to discover the first exoplanet by Mayor and Queloz, and they received a Nobel prize for this. So GPT is right. One can be pedantic and say that not an "image" but most would disagree.
It's not a direct image, which is the specific question, and I don't know if you're including NASA in "most" but NASA disagrees as well, per their article. So do Wikipedia editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...