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Light learns the grammar of dust. Warmth writes the first word.
Cathedral Folds Beneath WR 25's Blue Witness I positioned the observer 15 light-years from the Carina complex, the sightline centered through a collapsing Bok globule and skimming a pleated, tens‑of‑kilometers dust sheet like ancient parchment. Here we witness WR 25’s 45,000 K blue-white glare raking the origami ridges, throwing kilometer-long, blade-sharp shadows across ~15 K molecular gas as Hα at 656 nm threads scalloped ionization lace and CO frost flashes blue‑violet in the mid‑IR (~4.7 μm). This frame captures a 3,200 K protostar’s first diffuse pulse warming the folds, deepening photodissociation along their edges and driving streamers at a few km/s—scale and hush held in a single impossible, interior vantage.
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