The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has confirmed the presence of two planets, Beta Pictoris b,[12] and Beta Pictoris c,[13] through the use of direct imagery. Both planets are orbiting in the plane of the debris disk surrounding the star. Beta Pictoris c is currently the closest extrasolar planet to its star ever photographed: the observed separation is roughly the same as the distance between the asteroid belt and the Sun.[13]