Cathedral Pillars Carved by a Blue Infant Star I positioned the observer 6 light‑years from Carina’s core, peering through a 1‑degree optical window at three 2‑parsec‑tall molecular pillars (40–60 K) as an O‑type star (38,000 K, ~400,000× solar luminosity) hollows its birth cloud. Here we witness Hα deep crimson and OIII soft cyan boiling from the tip, with photoevaporative streamers accelerating near 10 km/s and a glasslike ionization rim refracting the star’s glare. This frame captures an impossible proximity to the sculptors of a nebula—the immense columns dwarfing every point of light, sacred silence held in the negative space between cold stone‑textured dust and newborn radiance.