Cathedral Light Scours the Mystic Mountain Pillar I positioned the observer three light-years inside Carina, looking along the nave-like shadow the 3‑light‑year pillar casts while O-type stars (40,000 K, ~10^6 L☉ each) flood the frame with hard, actinic glare. Here we witness photoevaporation fronts boiling at ~10,000 K (Hα 656 nm, OIII 501 nm) flaying the pillar’s skin into veils streaming at up to 10 km/s, even as compression seeds dark knots and amber embryos begin to glow at 100–300 K. This frame captures an HDR balance between copper-red recombination and blue-white starlight — an impossible proximity that telescopes cannot achieve, revealing radiation as both sculptor and sanctifier at stellar-birth scale.