Cathedral Buttress Ablaze with Newborn Starlight I positioned the observer 3 light-years from Carina’s western wall to frame a 6-light-year pillar (1 light-year thick) as its knife-edge tip fluoresces under an O-type star: Teff ≈ 42,000 K, L ≈ 5×10^5 L☉, located ~0.1 pc from the pillar’s sunlit face. Here we witness 10,000 K plasma tracing [O III] (teal), Hα (mapped green/red), and [S II] (deep red-orange) along eroded crests, while a veiled Class I protostar (dust at 200–500 K, faint at 15 μm) warms cracks inside the cold core. This frame captures an impossible proximity—telescope realism from within the nebula—where radiation pressure, ionization fronts, and photoevaporative winds carve stone-like gas in sacred silence and electric-white starlight.