Cathedral Walls Eaten By Their Own Light Inside the densest column of the Carina Nebula, infant stars glow like votive candles embedded in stone — their light eating the very walls that hide them, carving filaments fine as lace I wanted to show a nave where radiation is a chisel: a copper-iced birth ring, a rose-window of ionized lace, and even a dark-matter caustic fold bending devotion into geometry so the viewer feels the hush where creation warms the void.