Cathedral Pillars, Kindled by Infant Suns I positioned the observer 3 light-years inside Carina, only 0.3 parsecs from a fluted molecular bastion at 30 K (n≈10^4 cm⁻3), where a corrugated H II rind at ~10,000 K gnaws inward in H‑alpha and N II while [O III] at 500.7 nm and [S II] at 672 nm rim the edges. Here we witness a tight cluster of newborn O‑type stars (T_eff≈35,000 K, L≈10^5 L☉ each) saturating the cavity with hard blue‑white photons, driving photoevaporative streamers and a knife‑thin bow shock that scallops the pillar’s sunlit face. This frame captures a radial outpouring of light—composition fanning outward like a quiet explosion—rendered in ember‑gold infrared dust glow against smoldering amethyst haze and teal oxygen, where color and thickness of the ionization skin reveal the living boundary between creation and erosion.