Administration: Individual. The DAB-4 is a revision of one of the most popular individual achievement tests available. Its 8 subtests identify studentsâ strengths and weaknesses across important areas of school achievement. A supplemental manual shows how to probe student responses to obtain information about studentsâ thinking processes and problem-solving strategies.
In 1992, the first evidence of a planetary system other than our own was discovered, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. Three years later, 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet around a Sunlike star, was discovered.
- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.epler-20f is a bit larger than Earth, measuring 1.03 times its radius. Both planets reside in a five-planet system called Kepler-20, approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Kepler-20e orbits its parent star every 6.1 days and Kepler-20f every 19.6 days.