Jon Lomberg

[1] In 1998, the International Astronomical Union officially named an asteroid (6446 Lomberg) in recognition of his achievements in science communication.

[10][11][12] In 1972, Lomberg showed some of his paintings to astronomer Carl Sagan,[1] who then asked him to illustrate his book The Cosmic Connection (1973).

This was the beginning of their quarter century of collaboration on many projects, including the Cosmos series (for which Lomberg created the talent pool[13] and as chief artist[14][15] won a Primetime Emmy Award), the Cosmos book, Broca's Brain,[2][3] NASA's interstellar Voyager Golden Record,[14][15][16] the original cover art for Sagan's 1985 novel Contact,[17] and the opening sequence from Earth through the Solar System and its galaxy and beyond for the 1997 Contact film.

He was also on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant planning teams with Frank Drake, Ben Finney, Ward Goodenough, Louis Narens, Frederick Newmeyer, Woodruff Sullivan and others.

[26][27][28] Jon Lomberg is a founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists,[29] a member of the Planetary Society advisory council,[30] and designs exhibits and gives presentations for the Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center in Hilo, Hawaii for the Mauna Kea Observatory and Gemini North.