The titles featured in this gallery are available as Giclee prints. Giclee prints are digitally produced art, printed on canvas or paper using archival quality materials for many years of fade-free enjoyment. Paper offers a smooth finish while canvas is textured to appear similar to an actual painting. All Giclee prints are signed and have a minimum 2" white border on all sides.

The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico is the largest in the world. Suspended over its 1,000 foot dish is a triangular antenna support. That structure is seen against an accurately rendered Milky Way. The Summer Triangle of the stars Deneb, Altair, and Vega is seen next to the triangular antenna structure.

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The !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana describe the Milky Way as the "backbone of night". Jon Lomberg painted this image at the suggestion of Carl Sagan, who later used it as the title graphic for an episode of the television series COSMOS.

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Jon Lomberg was commissioned to create an image for the 1999 Bioastronomy Colloquium sponsored by the International Astronautical Union. The image portrays elements of astronomy and biology to suggest the complex conditions required for the creation of life on Earth, combined with images of other worlds in our solar system that might contain life.

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This painting was commissioned for the book COMET by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, to illustrate a concept proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson. Dyson suggested that in the future, comets could be used as the source of minerals and water to support the growth of gigantic, genetically engineered trees. These trees would use sunlight to grow to large size, and provide a habitat for space colonists.

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This image was created as concept art during the pre-production of the movie CONTACT. It was made to give the director, Robert Zemekis, an idea of the kind of imagery we wanted to have in the space animation sequences of the film.

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