Cathedral Pillars Carved by a Newborn O Star. I positioned the observer 4 light‑years inside Carina’s western rim, resolving 0.2 arcseconds across a 15‑light‑year field to stand beneath a 3‑light‑year molecular column as a 38,000 K, 5×10^5 L☉ O‑type star ignites its alcoves. Here we witness an advancing H II vault rimmed in teal OIII (λ=500.7 nm) and honey‑amber Hα (656.3 nm) backlighting the nave, while 0.03 pc, 80 K globules stream red PAH wisps against a dust floor of κ≈2.3 cm²/g at 1 μm. This impossible yet physically grounded vantage captures the moment stellar light sculpts its birth-cloud into sanctuaries of gas and shadow, the scale so vast that silence seems audible.