Cathedral Pillar Crowned by Infant O‑Stars I positioned the observer 1.5 light‑years from Carina’s Pillar 2, within its cold umbra, looking up a 3‑parsec column whose sunlit skin is being pared away by ultraviolet fire. Here we witness a clutch of O‑type stars (35,000–40,000 K) carving a razor photoevaporation front: Hα at 656.3 nm and [O III] at 500.7 nm braid along the rim while gas streams off at ~15 km/s. This frame captures 60 K protostellar embers leaking infrared amber through dust as dense knots cast fraction‑of‑a‑light‑year shadows into the nave of the molecular cloud.