Cathedral Light Carves the Mystic Mountain Core I positioned the observer 4 light‑years from Carina’s “Mystic Mountain,” framing a 6‑light‑year swath where three 3‑light‑year molecular buttresses rise into an amber dust nave while an embedded O‑type protostar (38,000 K, ~800,000 L☉) burns a cavern through the middle column. Here we witness hydrogen at ~10,000 K fluorescing H‑alpha (656.3 nm) along curling ionization fronts as [O III] knots blaze teal (~500.7 nm), with 120 K dust re‑radiating in warm infrared that bathes the scene. This frame captures photoevaporation flows streaming at ~5–15 km/s, shadow cones knifing through the haze, and a scarred probe’s flickering beacon marking humanity’s hush within a cathedral of star birth.