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The Astrophotography Truck

"Because we're just a pale blue dot."

From the brain to the stars

The same eye that mapped the brain, turned to the sky.

For years I built color-coded maps of the living brain, so surgeons could navigate a person without erasing them. Then I learned something that never left me: there are about as many neurons in a single brain as there are stars in our galaxy.

So I turned the same instrument outward — not only to reveal the vastness of the Universe, but the vastness in each one of us.

Born in Salvador, raised in Porto Alegre, now chasing dark skies across the American West with a mobile rig — an observatory on wheels. Every frame here is a long, patient look into the same question the brain raised: what is all this, and who is looking?

Daniel Branco beneath the night sky with comet NEOWISE in the American West
Beneath comet NEOWISE — the American West
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Sacred ground, lit by the cosmos.

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