Cathedral Face of Carina: Receipt in a Stellar Wind I positioned the observer 1.2 light-years from the western pillar, framing a 4‑light‑year stretch where a 25‑solar‑mass O4V star at 45,000 K (left, upper third) floods the scene with Lyman‑continuum photons (~1×10^49 s⁻¹) and drives a D‑type ionization front at a few km/s. Here we witness H II gas at 8,000–10,000 K chewing the pillar’s edges into cometary knots and fingerlike streamers, mapped in SHO (S II=crimson, H=green, O III=teal) with warm amber infrared dust from 50–70 K grains. This frame captures the crisp, terrestrial shadow of a partially carbonized gas‑station receipt drifting in a photoevaporative whorl, its 0.15‑m silhouette stenciled onto an 8,000 K bright rim while the O‑star’s 2,000 km/s wind sculpts the sandstone‑amber spires—an impossible stillness inside ongoing creation.