Cathedral Pillars Scalloped by Newborn O Stars I positioned the observer 3.2 light-years from Carina’s central pillar complex, framing a 10-light-year swath in combined Hα (656.3 nm), [O III] (500.7 nm), and broadband IR. Here we witness O-type infants (T ≈ 35,000 K; M_V ≈ −6) carving crescent ionization fronts into four-light-year-tall molecular columns, the densest dust knots glowing saturated teal against deep crimson Hα along advancing shock boundaries. This frame captures the impossible intimacy of standing at the nebula’s edge—silver starfields and velvet shadow—while radiation pressure, photoevaporation flows, and magnetic corrugations sculpt a sacred nave of gas and light.