Cathedral Birth at Carina’s Ionized Nave. I positioned the observer 1.8 light-years from the tip of a 12-light-year dust pillar, capturing a newborn star’s H II jet carving a luminous scar while a 12,000 K ionization front trims the pillar’s sunward edge in pale blue OIII. Warm, near‑IR amber from embedded O‑type protostars seeps through the dust, and the WR 25 halo (≈2.4 million L☉, ~50,000 K) fills the vaulted “ceiling” in golden mist that glances off a half‑buried 1940s bakelite receiver, now frost‑coated with crystallized ammonia and faintly pitted by cosmic rays. This impossible close‑in vantage renders telescope‑grade detail from inside the nebula’s nave, where starlight, shadow, and relic converge at the decisive moment of stellar birth.