Cathedral Edge where Children Carve Their Cradle I positioned the observer 1.2 light-years inside Carina, 0.5 parsecs from Pillar 3 and 20 light-years above the galactic plane, to watch a 5‑light‑year column meet a 10,000 K ionizing wind from Trumpler 16 (off‑frame, upper left). Here we witness Hα deep red and OIII teal peeling streamers from a sunlit rim while the pillar’s 80 K core stays lightless, and a 7000 K protostar (TYC 8626‑2506‑1) pours golden light through a newly hollowed cavity, scattering off silicate dust. This frame captures an 8 × 5 light‑year field with Bok globules ~0.1 light‑years across, X‑ray false‑color cyan/magenta wisps marking million‑degree wind cavities, and the impossible intimacy of standing amid star birth as radiation sculpts its own cathedral buttresses.