EDMONDS, Wash.  (Metro)  -- An Edmonds man is one of a handful of people who can say they've actually discovered a new planet. 

Eric Agol is an astrophysicist at the University of Washington. 

Komonews.com reports he was looking at data from the Kepler telescope, which monitors 150,000 stars, when he saw a planet that NASA scientists missed. 

Agol's planet is small and because it's 1200 light years away, cannot be seen in the night sky.

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