Cathedral Pillar Under Infant Stars’ Pitiless Baptism I positioned the observer 3 light-years from a 20-light-year dust pillar in Carina, framing its charcoal-black edge as O-type newborns (T≈35,000 K, L≈5×10^5 L☉) carve it with ultraviolet. Here we witness Hα at 656 nm glowing rose from ~10,000 K H II curls, with [O III] at 501 nm tracing teal shock rims, across a 10-light-year field tuned to preserve shadowed Bok globules (T≈300 K) while letting ionization fronts radiate razor bright. This impossible proximity reveals photoevaporation fronts rolling off the surface in sacred silence, the very clouds that birthed these stars dissolving under their relentless light.