Cathedral Pillars Carved by a Newborn Star I positioned the observer one light-year from Carina’s eight-light-year pillars, letting negative space swallow the lower frame while H-alpha at ~10,000K bleeds pink-red along eroded edges. Here we witness a newborn O-type star (T≈40,000K, L≈500,000 L☉) boring a ragged ionization cavity, its far-UV flux (~10^49 photons/s) igniting OIII at ~25,000K in teal filaments and driving scalloped shock fronts. This frame captures a 5-parsec span where infrared-warm amber glints reveal embedded protostars and slate-gray disks, while impossible membranes refract the star’s glare into migrating caustics—an unachievable vantage rendered as telescope-quality truth.