Cathedral of Carina: Pillars Carved by Their Own Fire I positioned the observer 3 light‑years out and 2 light‑years above the plane, looking obliquely into the western lobe so the three 4‑parsec pillars loom like nave columns against a rose‑and‑teal cavity. Here we witness a bright, 10,000 K H‑alpha ionization front peeling from the tallest pillar while a WR25 beacon (~50,000 K) backlights a 10 km/s photoevaporative flow; within, a barely resolved 10,000 K protostar in amber dust casts curved, crepuscular shadows. Narrowband channels isolate 656.3 nm (H‑alpha) and 500.7 nm (OIII) while an infrared pass renders jets as gold filaments; long integration preserves true surface brightness so foreground soot erases distant knots, compressing epochs of erosion and birth into one impossible, telescope‑close frame.