University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has added four new planets to the map of the sky, including a system that might be an abode for life. (Martin Dee/UBC)

Not every recent college graduate can boast a resumé quite like Michelle Kunimoto's. The 22-year-old, who studied astronomy at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made the ultimate stargazing discovery: she spotted four previously unknown exoplanets.

"I got ," Kunimoto told Metro. "The whole theme of Star Trek, curiosity and exploration, is really important for the long, long, long term. We want to answer the age-old question: Are we alone?"

This image shows Kunimoto's new discoveries compared by size to planets in our solar system. (Michelle Kunimoto and Jaymie Matthews/UBC)

With that enthusiasm, the Star Trek fan diligently combed through the immense amount of data from one of NASA's most famous satellites and catalogued four Kepler Objects of Interest, previously unnoticed by all the other scientists who also studied the data.

". One is Mercury-sized. And the last one is slightly larger than Neptune," she told Motherboard. "The Neptune one is most exciting."

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Clocking in at 3,200 light years away, that object is in a habitable zone of its solar system. She's dubbed it "Warm Neptune" because it's the size of our own Neptune, but close enough to its star to be warm like Earth's atmosphere.

"Like our own Neptune, it’s ," Kunimoto said in a UBC press release. "The exciting part is that like the large planets in our solar system, it could have large moons and these moons could have liquid water oceans."

Astronomy professor and Kunimoto's advisor Jaymie Matthews told Motherboard that they hadn't found any moons around the exoplanets just yet, but he's confident they will.

Matthews and Kunimoto submitted their discoveries to the Astronomical Journal. The objects of interest will become official planets once they are independently reviewed.

Kunimoto received the perfect graduation present to honor her discovery, Metro reported: William Shatner himself praised Kunimoto for her work while addressing UBC this past weekend.

In the fall, Kunimoto will return to UBC, where she'll continue her search for other planets in the master's program for physics and astronomy.

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