Cathedral Pillar, Eaten by Light, Crowned by New Suns I positioned the observer 2 light-years above Carina’s central nursery, looking into a 10-light-year molecular wall whose scalloped face glows where 40,000 K, ~10^6 L☉ O-type stars carve D-type ionization fronts (Te ≈ 10,000 K; H-alpha deep red, OIII teal). Here we witness a 30 K dust pool reflecting faint blue, shock arcs rippling at the base, amber/crimson protostars punching jets at 100–300 km/s through veils, and a 1 m silicate foil shard flickering caustics upward—an impossible alignment that lets newborn suns silhouette the very rock-dark cloud that birthed them. This frame captures emission-line neon in isolated spectral bands, the reflective geometry of a tumbling debris sheet, and field-aligned polarization textures, rendering the cathedral-scale erosions of light and wind at parsec stakes while the void beyond stays velvet-black and immeasurably deep.