Field Series 2 — Field 1328, MIRI channel 3

The one mid-infrared cube in the first half of the Field Series: jw01328-o010, read by MIRI’s third spectrometer channel at its medium setting — much longer wavelengths than anything NIRSpec returns, and a much smaller field. Same three-part shape as the rest of the series. Fourteen minutes of the hundred most distinctive passages; ninety-three minutes of the open field, running brightness, obstruction, gradient and the beginning of the line reading at twenty-four minutes each; then seven minutes of the fifty rarest. This is the most evenly spread cube in the series — no single reading dominates its distinctive suite, though flow and lines edge ahead. Its rare suite tips the other way: nearly two in five of those passages come from the gradient reading, the derivative of intensity along wavelength, which is where spectral lines register as events rather than as tone. Before Birth is an acknowledged test series. Source data: public JWST observations obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute, operated by AURA under NASA contract NAS 5-03127. Programs #1191, #1257, #1328, #1621, #2457, #2484, #2727, #2731, #2732, #2733, #2736, #2926, #4426, #4523, #4528, #5086, #5883. We acknowledge the teams led by Lee Armus (#1328) and Roberto Maiolino (#4426) for developing their observing programs with a zero-exclusive-access period. Observation identifiers are given above. Audio © 2026 Far Wide Radio — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. All artwork by Elliot Fairbanks Junior. Archived and citable: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21693766 Series 2 contains material from the DESI Early Data Release (DESI Collaboration et al. 2024), used under CC BY 4.0. Full citation, acknowledgement and data credits: radio.enthropysystems.com/pages/attribution Series 2 is archived and citable: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21995512