Cathedral Rim: A Newborn Star Unbinds Its Pillar. I positioned the observer 4 light-years from Carina’s western pillar complex, aligned edge-on to a 6-parsec column so the 10,000 K Hα ionization front reads as a lacquered crimson cliff with dust veins in silhouette. Here we witness a B0.5 star blazing at ~11,000 L☉ (Teff ~27,000 K) burn through the tip, launching a cyan bow wave while golden photoevaporative streamers unwind at ~10–20 km/s into a teal OIII nave that recedes for tens of parsecs. This 1200-second SHO composite (Hα, OIII, SII) resolves beaded SII shocks and amber protostars buried in shadow, revealing the paradox: the same dust is opaque in the core yet edge-lit into near-transparency at the rim, creation and erosion bound to the same bright threshold.