A Pew Beneath an Eight-Light-Year Pillar. I positioned the observer 3.5 light-years from Carina’s western towers, so that an aged wooden church pew fills the foreground while an 8×2 light-year dust pillar ascends like a nave behind it. Here we witness HD 93129A (42,000 K, ~2.5×10^6 L☉) skimming the pillar’s tip into a luminous 656 nm H-alpha rim as three embedded 5–12 M☉ protostars drive teal OIII and deep red SII jets heating shocks to ~4×10^5 K across the lower right. This frame captures a cathedral where light sculpts matter—blue-white B stars filigree the upper right—and the pew sits as silent witness to a scale so vast that human craft becomes a fleck of varnish in a sanctuary of interstellar stone.