Cathedral Spine Under a Newborn Stellar Torch I positioned the observer five light-years above Carina’s central spine, looking down a 3–5 light-year molecular pillar as a newborn O-type star (Teff ≈ 40,000 K, luminosity ≈ 300,000 L☉) ignites at its capstone. Here we witness a 10,000 K ionization front rendering Hα in deep crimson and OIII in teal-white, peeling the pillar into supersonic (∼10 km/s) evaporative streamers while dozens of amber protostars (dust 100–300 K) glow through translucent skins; the shadowed floor below rests at ~50 K, shimmering in faint blue infrared. This impossible vantage compresses parsec and sub-AU scales into one nave-like frame: rose-window wind cavities cast shafts across the nebular floor, magnetic tendons align dust filaments, and the pillar’s mile-long silhouette sculpts a sanctuary where light is both architect and eroder.