Adjust font size:
CNN -- A British student says he's cracked a 19 quadrillion-digit long code that's been puzzling Nasa scientists for decades. Nasa have invited him to present his reach at a scientific conference in China.
19,342, 813,113,834,066,795,298,816: The number of digits in the code that student Cen Jung Tjhai says he's cracked. The code is used to evaluate photographic data beamed back from satellites in space.
1,500: The number of university computers Tjhai used to crack the code.
27: Tjhai isa youthful 27 and a PhD student at the University of Plymouth, southern England.
35 mm: The first picture of space was taken on an Ansco Autoset 35 mm camera by U.S. astronaut John Glenn.
1920: The year Edwin Hubble trained his telescope onto the cosmos.
1990: The year the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
569 kilometers: The height above the earth at which the Hubble telescope orbits.
97 minutes: The amount of time it takes for the Hubble telescope to orbit earth while taking images of space.
