A Rose Window Hung in Carina’s Birth Cathedral I positioned the observer two light-years above the Carina Nebula’s main pillars, framing a three–light-year span where 30 K molecular columns rise like nave buttresses while a cluster of 40,000 K O-type protostars (<0.01 pc away, up to 500,000 L☉ each) sculpts their faces. Here we witness an impossible wad of thumbnail-sized stained-glass fragments half-submerged at a pillar tip, their ablated edges glowing cerulean under UV as photoevaporation fronts advance at ~10 km/s and HH-like knots streak teal (OIII) and violet (SII). This frame captures a prismatic corona cast by a single paradox prism shard onto a nearby gas clump—a rose window writ in dust—folding sacred silence into the vertigo of cathedral-scale creation.