Cathedral Fire at the Pillar’s Crown I positioned the observer two light‑years inside Carina, looking up from a 4‑light‑year column of 30 K molecular hydrogen as a 40,000 K O‑type protostar (≈5×10^5 L☉) tears open the cloud above. Here we witness UV‑driven photoevaporation curling the rim into incandescent [O III] filaments while embedded protostars flicker like golden embers; stellar winds near the tip reach ~1000 km/s, driving a bow shock that glows faint cyan‑magenta. This frame captures an earthly bronze censer—soccer‑ball scale—resting on a dust ledge, its polished dome reflecting electric white starlight and Hα/S II amber, a human relic dwarfed by a shadow that spans kilometers across the field.