Cathedral Ribs Under a Relentless Blue Flame I positioned the observer 6 light-years from Carina’s Mystic Mountain, framing two 3–4 light-year pillars within an 8 light-year field as a 60,000 K O-type furnace (HD 93129A, ~1.2×10^6 L☉) blazes from the upper-left, just out of frame. Here we witness UV-driven photoevaporation ripping at the tips at ~10–20 km/s, Hα filigree (656.3 nm) and OIII teal (500.7 nm) glinting along razor-thin photodissociation fronts while embedded dust cocoons leak 24 μm warmth (~120 K) through fractured veils. This frame captures an impossible interior vantage—the pillars’ fluted skin, density gradients (~10^4–10^5 cm⁻³), and curling ablation streamers backlit by honeyed nebular scatter—resolved simultaneously by a combined Hα, [OIII], and broadband visible calibration.