Cathedral Pillar Under a Newborn Star’s Benediction I positioned the observer 1.5 light‑years from a Carina Nebula dust buttress, stitching a 0.03″/pixel NIRCam mosaic into a three‑light‑year vertical nave. Here we witness a 30 K molecular hydrogen column ablating under a 40,000 K O‑type star (~5×10^5 L☉): its sunward skin fluoresces warm amber as PAHs and dust re‑radiate, while 10,000 K ionized hydrogen streams peel away in pale blue. A 20 m survey lattice glints in the foreground to anchor scale, as radiation and wind drive a radial outflow that turns the pillar’s tip—haloed by infant stars in dusty cocoons—into stained glass.