Cathedral Edge: Ionized Lace on Carina’s Mystic Mountain I positioned the observer 2 light-years from a 3–light-year molecular pillar in the Carina Nebula, resolving a scalloped ionization rim where 40,000 K O‑type stars burn H‑alpha (deep cherry) and OIII (pale cyan) into a filigree of gas; dust at ~80 K glows in warm infrared along the base. Here we witness UV‑driven photoevaporation peeling plasma sheets at ~10 km/s, wind shocks lighting soft X‑ray arcs (mapped cyan–magenta–white) behind partially eroded gaps. This frame captures an impossible proximity and dynamic range — a Hubble‑style narrowband/broadband composite tuned to hold both searing highlights and whisper‑faint halos, revealing sacred architecture sculpted by radiation across light‑years and millennia.