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1. meatmanek ◴[] No.44402844[source]
The HN title is subtly incorrect: this isn't the first direct image of an exoplanet from JWST. Here's an article from March showing several exoplanet images from JWST: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-images-you...

The key word "discovery" has been removed from the headline from TFA: "The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet". I.e, this is the first time that direct imagery was used to _discover_ a planet we didn't know existed previously.

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2. dang ◴[] No.44404321[source]
Ok, we've put discovery in there now. Thanks!

Submitted title was "James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet", which I'm sure was just a good-faith attempt to fit HN's 80 char title limit. I've achieved that by compressing to JWST now :)