Cathedral Pillar Baptized by Its Newborn Suns I positioned the observer 1.5 light-years above and behind a Carina pillar, framing a 4 light-year span where a 14 K molecular spine (n≈2×10⁴ cm⁻³ in its knots) rises into ultraviolet surf. Here we witness a 9000 K ionization front blazing in Hα (crimson) and OIII (teal) under the glare of HD 93129A (42,500 K, 1.8×10⁶ L☉, ~8 pc behind), its photons shearing gold-edged streamers from the column. This frame captures a 5 M☉, 0.2 Myr protostar carving a local HII cavity while bipolar jets punch through dust, kindling SII-green shocks—birthlight that sculpts the very cloud that birthed it.