Erosion Altars at Carina’s Cathedral Tips I positioned the observer 3 light‑years off the nebula’s western wall, framing a 15‑light‑year span where three cold (40–80 K) molecular pillars rise and boil at their sunlit faces. Here we witness embedded O‑type protostars (≈30,000 K, ~100,000 L☉) carving H‑alpha rims (deep red-orange) and OIII lace (pale teal) while photodissociation fronts race toward us at ~10 km/s, unraveling cometary knots strand by strand. This frame captures the impossible intimacy of a telescope inside the cavity: infrared‑amber halos around 1–2 M☉ Bok globules bleed through velvet dust as blue‑white OB stars puncture the vault, their winds hollowing the sacred void.