There’s nothing really wrong with this code, but the SCT (Submission Correctness Test) requires that you use XML Syntax for image and link tags, so it should work like so:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear" target ="_blank"> <img src = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/courses/web-101/web101-image_brownbear.jpg" alt= "A Brown Bear" /></a>
XML Syntax is literally just a space between r" and /> in this case. Nothing wrong with the code, just the test. Use the code above and it should work