Cathedral Pillar Under Newborn Suns, Curved Shadow Psalm I positioned the observer 2 light-years inside Carina’s western dust complex, at the foot of an 8-parsec needle whose 9000 K hydrogen skin glows Hα-deep magenta along tar-black dust lanes. Here we witness three ultrayoung O-type stars (<2×10^5 yr, ≈5×10^5 L☉ each) scouring the pillar’s rim: [O III] 495.9 nm shock sheets ripple at ~15,000 K and [S II] 672 nm recombination beads spark orange–pink as photoevaporative tails arc away. This frame captures a 20 K Bok globule perched atop the head, its gravitational lensing drawing a dusty tendril’s shadow into an impossible curve that bends back toward the very stars that cast it—beauty written in pressure, heat, and scale.