Cathedral Edge: Protostar, Veil, and X‑ray Halo I positioned the observer inside a Carina Nebula pillar, less than 100 AU from an embedded protostar whose 1500 K inner disk rim glows while a 10,000 K ionization front peels away the wall. Here we witness million‑degree plasma (mapped to cyan/white in X‑ray false color) billowing beyond the ridge as 200–300 km/s bipolar micro‑jets sculpt soap‑thin shocks and braid magnetic filaments. This frame captures the sacred hush of star‑birth feedback at sub‑AU proximity: H‑alpha mapped to magenta, [O III] to cyan, with the hot cavity’s white pulses breathing through a radiation‑pressure veil that should be invisible yet hangs before us like translucent aerogel.