American artist and journalist (born 1948)
Jon Lomberg (born 1948) is an Americanspace artist andscience journalist . He wasCarl Sagan 's principal artistic collaborator for more than twenty years on many projects from 1972 through 1996.[ 1] International Astronomical Union officially named an asteroid (6446 Lomberg ) in recognition of his achievements in science communication.[ 2] [ 3] the Golden Record on theVoyager spacecraft ;[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Jon Lomberg grew up inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania .[ 8] Toronto, Ontario , after college, he was invited by science fiction authorJudith Merril to display his artwork at a conference she organised for theOntario Institute for Studies in Education .[ 9] CBC Radio One programIdeas NASA 'sViking program andHalley's Comet for the program.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
In 1972, Lomberg showed some of his paintings to astronomerCarl Sagan ,[ 1] The Cosmic Connection collaboration on many projects, including theCosmos series (for which Lomberg created the talent pool[ 13] [ 14] [ 15] Primetime Emmy Award ), theCosmos Broca's Brain [ 2] [ 3] NASA 's interstellarVoyager Golden Record ,[ 14] [ 15] [ 16] cover art for Sagan's 1985 novelContact [ 17] Earth through theSolar System and its galaxy and beyond for the 1997Contact [ 14] [ 15] [ 1] Planetary Society in 1981.[ 18]
Lomberg's Milky Way portrait as background forKepler Mission diagram. TheSmithsonian Institution commissioned Lomberg in the early 1990s to paint"A Portrait of the Milky Way" , a scientifically accurate artistic representation of theMilky Way galaxy as seen by a hypothetical observer from a vantage point 10 degrees above thegalactic plane and 60,000light years from thegalactic center .[ 19] [ 20] peer reviewed academic paper in 1994 as "the best representation of our galaxy to date" and "a first map like those of explorers long ago",[ 19] National Air and Space Museum from 1992 through 2002 and remains part of its permanent collection ofaviation andspace art .[ 21] Milky Way scale model which is part of the Paleaku Peace Gardens Sanctuary inKailua-Kona, Hawaii .[ 8] [ 22]
Lomberg co-designed theMarsDial [ 23] [ 24] Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit Opportunity [ 25] Visions of Mars CD-ROM and mini-DVD aboard the spacecraftPhoenix Mars in May 2008. He was also on theWaste Isolation Pilot Plant planning teams withFrank Drake ,Ben Finney ,Ward Goodenough ,Louis Narens ,Frederick Newmeyer ,Woodruff Sullivan and others.[ 26] [ 27] [ 28]
Jon Lomberg is a founding member of theInternational Association of Astronomical Artists ,[ 29] Planetary Society advisory council,[ 30] Hilo, Hawaii for theMauna Kea Observatory andGemini North .[ 8] [ 23] [ 31]
The books Jon Lomberg has co-authored and/or illustrated include:
1978:Carl Sagan ,Frank Drake ,Ann Druyan ,Timothy Ferris , Jon Lomberg,Linda Salzman Sagan .Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record New York City :Random House .ISBN 0-394-41047-5 1979:Carl Sagan ,Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science .New York City :Random House .ISBN 0-394-50169-1 1997: Donald Goldsmith,Worlds Unnumbered: The Search For Extrasolar Planets. Herndon, Virginia : University Science Books.ISBN 0-935702-97-0 1997: Donald Goldsmith,Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe. Cambridge, Massachusetts :Harvard University Press .ISBN 0-674-24242-4 2001:Donald Goldsmith andTobias Owen ,The Search for Life in the Universe. Herndon, Virginia : University Science Books.ISBN 978-1-891389-16-0 2004: David W. Thomson and James Bourassa,Secrets of the Aether: Unified Force Theory, Dark Matter and Consciousness. Alma, Illinois : The Aenor Trust.ISBN 0-9724251-2-8 The awards and honors which have been bestowed upon Jon Lomberg include:
^a b c "Artist of the Cosmos: Jon Lomberg" .Artist's statement paired withPlanetary Society biography .San Diego Supercomputer Center 'sStorage Resource Broker website. Archived fromthe original on 2008-01-24.^a b "About the Artist" .San Diego State University Computational Science Research Center.^a b "Visualizing the Cosmos" .Calit2 announcement forUCSD lecture^ "What are the contents of the Golden Record?" .JPL: Voyager . Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved8 May 2022 .^ Thompson, Helen."The Golden Record 2.0 Will Crowdsource A Selfie of Human Culture" .Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved8 May 2022 . ^ Ferris, Timothy (20 August 2017)."How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made" .The New Yorker . Retrieved8 May 2022 . ^ "Transcript of Radiolab: Space" .Radiolab . Retrieved8 May 2022 .^a b c Chris Oliver (October 28, 2007)."Earth's first walk-through model of the Milky Way opens on Big Island" .Honolulu Advertiser ^ Jon Lomberg."Tribute" .SOL Rising, Number 20, January 1998 . The Friends of theJudith Merril Collection,Toronto Public Library . Archived fromthe original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved2008-01-17 . ^ Bob McDonald (September 6, 2007)."30 Years and a Day" .Quirks and Quarks ^ "Virtual Journeys" .CBC Radio One Ideas (radio show) the original on July 8, 2007.^ "Halley's Comet" .CBC Radio One Ideas (radio show) the original on December 12, 2007.^ "Carl Sagan, Cosmos, and the space artists" .Don Davis websiteCosmos .Don Davis , Jon Lomberg,Rick Sternbach . [Below] Left to right:Adolf Schaller , Don Davis,John Allison , Jon Lomberg, Brown. Many of the original negatives of the visual effects are in the boxes along the wall. (Don Davis Career Overview includes his photograph of Lomberg on the set ofCosmos ^a b c Monica Bobra (July 23, 2003)."Space Artists Honored" .Sky & Telescope ^a b c "The ASP Announces its Bruce Medalist and Other Award Recipients for 2002" .Astronomical Society of the Pacific ^ Jason Fry (January 23, 2006)."Message in a Bottle" .The Wall Street Journal ^ Description of first edition first printing ofContact Carl Sagan .London :Century Hutchinson , 1986.ISBN 0-7126-9503-6 ^ Jon Lomberg'sOriginal Sailing Ship Logo for thePlanetary Society . ^a b Goldstein, J. J.; Bicay, M.; Gorchev, R.; Lomberg, J.; Blitz, L.; Neal, V.Abstract ,A Portrait of the Milky Way: The Jon Lomberg Painting. Art and Science Working Together .American Astronomical Society ,DPS Meeting #26,Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p. 1550. December 1994. ^ David S. F. Portree."New View of the Galaxy (December 2, 1994)" .Scripts of thesyndicated radio series StarDate .Artist John Lomberg and astrophysicist Jeff Goldstein spent a year plotting the positions ofnebulae andstar clusters we can see in the night sky. They also drew upon the latest research about the galaxy's structure. They usedradio observations to plot the broad sweep of itsspiral arms , for example. Lomberg then set up a six-foot-by-eight-foot canvas in a hut on theisland of Hawaii . He painted withairbrush andacrylics . At night he covered the forming galaxy to keep thegeckos away… ^ Stellarium."Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 1992 - 2002" . Archived fromthe original on 2008-01-05.[Image caption.] Installation of the map in 1992. Note the cutout in the light baffle wall on the right. It held a backlit Milky Way portrait by Emmy Award winning space artist Jon Lomberg. The portrait faced outward and served as a Stellarium introduction. Research by the museum's astrophysics department gave the renowned artist the basis for the most accurate portrait possible. It also gave the first evidence that our galaxy is abarred spiral . ^ "Mapping The Milky Way in Flowers" .Paleaku Astronomy Center Galaxy Garden, detailed description with photographs and explanatory diagrams . Archived fromthe original on 2008-01-02.^a b "Martian Sundial Designed For 2001 Space Mission Is Unveiled By Bill Nye "The Science Guy" .Science Daily ^ Susan Essoyan (January 3, 2004)."Isle artist adds local touch to Mars craft" .Honolulu Star-Bulletin the original on June 24, 2008. RetrievedJanuary 17, 2008 . ^ Jon Lomberg."Visions of Mars: Then and Now" .Planetary Society the original on 2008-01-03. ^ Christian Tyler (June 3, 2000)."What do we want to say to our far-off descendants - and how can we say it?" .Financial Times article on theLong Now Foundation website ^ James M. Pethokoukis (August 5, 2002)."A curse to last 10,000 years" .U.S. News & World Report the original on October 9, 2012. RetrievedSeptember 2, 2017 . ^ Julia Bryan-Wilson (6 June 2016)."Nuclear Time: On Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Storage Facility" .Plazm 27 ^ History Archived 1998-12-06 at theWayback Machine of theInternational Association of Astronomical Artists .^ Advisory Council of thePlanetary Society .^ Institute for Astronomy Office of Science Education and Public Outreach (January 20, 2006)."The Artist in the Observatory: Jon Lomberg" .University of Hawaii at Hilo presentation co-sponsored byGemini Observatory the original on September 10, 2007.
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