Field Series 6 — Field 2926, MIRI channel 1 medium
S01:E09

Field Series 6 — Field 2926, MIRI channel 1 medium

Episode description

The other half of the pair. Same JWST programme, same MIRI channel, second observation, one sub-band longer — jw02926-o002 where Episode 8 was o001. If the series has a controlled comparison in it, this is that comparison.

The build is identical: fourteen minutes of the hundred most distinctive passages, ninety-three minutes of the open field running brightness, obstruction, gradient and into lines, seven minutes of the fifty rarest.

What changed with the sub-band: brightness still leads the distinctive suite, but flow and anisotropy have climbed to join it, and the line reading has almost vanished from the rare suite — one passage out of fifty, against nine in the short-band cube. The rare material here is spread across all seven readings rather than concentrated.

The same sky, moved slightly along in wavelength, does not sound like the same data.

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, #1328, #1621, #2457, #2926, #4426, #4528, #5086. 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

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